Smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach to aggregation of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle swarm

Authors

Jose Martin Z. Maningo, De La Salle University, Manila
Ryan Rhay P. Vicerra, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
Laurence A. Gan Lim, De La Salle University, Manila
Edwin Sybingco, De La Salle University, Manila
Elmer P. Dadios, De La Salle University, Manila
Argel A. Bandala, De La Salle University, Manila

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Electronics And Communications Engg

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volume

21

Issue

2

First Page

181

Last Page

188

Publication Date

3-1-2017

Abstract

This paper uses a fluid mechanics approach to perform swarming aggregation on a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) swarm platform. This is done by adapting the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. An algorithm benchmarking is conducted to see how well SPH performs. Simulations of varying set-ups are experimented to compare different algorithms with SPH. The position error of SPH is 30% less than the benchmark algorithm when a target enclosure is introduce. SPH is implemented using Crazyflie quadrotor swarm. The aggregation behavior exhibited successfully in the said platform.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.20965/jaciii.2017.p0181

Recommended Citation

Maningo, J. Z., Vicerra, R. P., Gan Lim, L. A., Sybingco, E., Dadios, E. P., & Bandala, A. A. (2017). Smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach to aggregation of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle swarm. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 21 (2), 181-188. https://doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2017.p0181

Disciplines

Electrical and Electronics | Systems and Communications

Keywords

Drone aircraft; Swarm intelligence

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