Agent Based Simulation of Cooperative Surveillance

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.