Abstract:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are nowadays used in many areas such as Agriculture,
Defense, Civil Security, Border Surveillance, Air Traffic Control, Healthcare etc. Usage of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has been increased dramatically over the past decades due to its
low cost, small size, autonomous structure, and high mobility [8]. UAVs play a vital role
in performing dull and risky tasks without endangering a human pilot. UAVs can enter the
area where onboard pilot vehicle cannot enter. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are highly
used in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in both civil and military territory [2].
The study focuses on performance factors of UAVs in wide area surveillance environment in
which multiple UAVs are given surveillance task. Task in security patrol is to detect the location
of intruder in real time to capture the intruder and avoid escape. In forest fire monitoring
to adequately point out the newly started forest fire location, to rapidly perform effective
strategy to overcome the damage. The system presented here establishes performance parameter
to efficiently provide wide area surveillance with multiple cooperative UAVs. This
thesis focuses on the overall system performance of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles
that performs surveillance in a given area. The thesis main theme is to lay down performance
parameter that is required for UAVs surveillance tasks.
Three different algorithms are simulated in Net logo to study the performance of overall
system. The behaviors are simulated in Net-logo with different data to check the efficiency of
the overall system. The simulation results are compared to indicate performance parameters.
This thesis provides answer to this research question. What are the performance parameters/
indicators of the overall system in multiple cooperative UAVs are performing surveillance
task in the given area.
