Persistent Patrol with Limited-range On-Board Sensors
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Huynh, Vu Anh; Enright, John J.; Frazzoli, Emilio
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We propose and analyze the Persistent Patrol Problem (PPP). An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) moving with constant speed and unbounded acceleration patrols a bounded region of the plane where localized incidents occur according to a renewal process with known time intensity and spatial distribution. The UAV can detect incidents using on-board sensors with a limited visibility radius. We want to minimize the expected waiting time between the occurrence of an incident, and the time that it is detected. First, we provide a lower bound on the achievable expected detection time of any patrol policy in the limit as the visibility radius goes to zero. Second, we present the Biased Tile Sweep policy whose upper bound shows (i) the lower bound's tightness, (ii) the policy's asymptotic optimality, and (iii) that the desired spatial distribution of the searching vehicle's position is proportional to the square root of the underlying spatial distribution of incidents it must find. Third, we present two online policies: (i) a policy whose performance is provably within a constant factor of the optimal called TSP Sampling, (ii) and the TSP Sampling with Receding Horizon heuristically yielding better performance than the former in practice. Fourth, we present a decision-theoretic approach to the PPP that attempts to solve for optimal policies offline. In addition, we use numerical experiments to compare performance of the four approaches and suggest suitable operational scenarios for each one.
Date issued
2010-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision SystemsJournal
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 49th (2010)
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Huynh, Vu Anh, John J. Enright, and Emilio Frazzoli. “Persistent Patrol with Limited-range On-board Sensors.” 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010. 7661-7668. Copyright © 2010, IEEE
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INSPEC Accession Number: 11848279
ISBN
978-1-4244-7745-6
ISSN
0743-1546