TriSAR:災害対応における空中ロボットチームのタスク調整と衝突回避
TriSAR: Task Coordination and Collision Avoidance for Aerial Robot Teams in Disaster Response
災害対応のための5機のUAVチームを対象に、タスク割り当て戦略(遺伝的アルゴリズムと貪欲法)と衝突回避の有無が任務効率と安全性に与える影響を、物理ベースのシミュレーションで比較評価した。
著者: Aditya Anil Kapile, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy Ihianle
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) disaster-response systems require coordinated task assignment and local trajectory control, yet the individual and combined contributions of these coordination layers to mission efficiency and operational safety remain insufficiently characterised under controlled experimental conditions. TriSAR is evaluated as a five-UAV coordination system operating in a physics-based Gazebo simulation of an earthquake-damaged urban environment. A 2 x 2 factorial design compares two task-allocation strategies (Genetic Algorithm and greedy fitness-based allocation) with reactive collision avoidance enabled or disabled. Each of the four configurations was evaluated over 30 stochastic episodes in a common scenario of five UAVs and eight targets. Under greedy allocation, enabling repulsion eliminated recorded collision-threshold violations, confirmed by a Mann-Whitney test (U = 885, p = 4.03 x 10^-12, rank-biserial r = 0.97). Under GA allocation, the same protective effect was confirmed (U = 675, p = 1.26 x 10^-5, rank-biserial r = 0.50). For mission-efficiency metrics, GA-based allocation showed no statistically detectable advantage over greedy allocation when repulsion was enabled, but a significant advantage in steps, path length, and energy when repulsion was disabled (Welch's t-tests, |g| between 0.92 and 1.76). These results show that reactive repulsion provides a substantial, allocation-dependent safety benefit, while the additional computational complexity of GA-based task allocation yields a detectable mission-efficiency benefit only when repulsion is disabled.