用无人机网络动态协作搜寻未知污染源,提升城市环境监测效率。
DLW-CI: A Dynamic Likelihood-Weighted Cooperative Infotaxis Approach for Multi-Source Search in Urban Environments Using Consumer Drone Networks
- 通过多粒子滤波并行估计多个未知污染源参数,实现精准定位。
- 引入动态似然权重机制,避免多机重复搜索,提升覆盖与节能效果。
- 在含障碍物和流体扩散场景中表现优异,适合智能城市应急响应。
配备低成本传感器的消费级无人机已成为城市环境中环境监测与危险物质探测的自主智能系统(AIS)核心。然而,现有研究主要聚焦单源搜索,忽视了真实城市场景中污染源位置与数量均未知的复杂性。为此,本文提出动态似然加权协同信息搜索(DLW-CI)方法,用于消费级无人机网络。该方法结合信息搜索策略、优化的源项估计与创新的协作机制,提升多无人机协同能力。具体而言,提出一种新源项估计方法,采用多个并行粒子滤波器,每个专用于估计场景中潜在未知源的参数。同时,设计基于动态似然权重的协作机制,防止多架无人机同时对同一源进行估计与搜索,从而优化能耗与搜索覆盖范围。实验表明,无论是否存在障碍物,该方法在源数较少场景下显著优于基线方法,在成功率、精度与均方根误差上均有明显提升。此外,通过计算流体动力学(CFD)模型生成的扩散场景验证了方法有效性。研究结果表明,该方法可显著提高基于无人机的自主智能系统在源估计精度与搜索效率方面的表现,为智慧城市环境安全监测提供重要支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Consumer-grade drones equipped with low-cost sensors have emerged as a cornerstone of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AISs) for environmental monitoring and hazardous substance detection in urban environments. However, existing research primarily addresses single-source search problems, overlooking the complexities of real-world urban scenarios where both the location and quantity of hazardous sources remain unknown. To address this issue, we propose the Dynamic Likelihood-Weighted Cooperative Infotaxis (DLW-CI) approach for consumer drone networks. Our approach enhances multi-drone collaboration in AISs by combining infotaxis (a cognitive search strategy) with optimized source term estimation and an innovative cooperative mechanism. Specifically, we introduce a novel source term estimation method that utilizes multiple parallel particle filters, with each filter dedicated to estimating the parameters of a potentially unknown source within the search scene. Furthermore, we develop a cooperative mechanism based on dynamic likelihood weights to prevent multiple drones from simultaneously estimating and searching for the same source, thus optimizing the energy efficiency and search coverage of the consumer AIS. Experimental results demonstrate that the DLW-CI approach significantly outperforms baseline methods regarding success rate, accuracy, and root mean square error, particularly in scenarios with relatively few sources, regardless of the presence of obstacles. Also, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified in a diffusion scenario generated by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. Research findings indicate that our approach could improve source estimation accuracy and search efficiency by consumer drone-based AISs, making a valuable contribution to environmental safety monitoring applications within smart city infrastructure.
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