Designing an energy efficient UAV tracking algorithm

Mouna Elloumi (1, 2) , Benoît Escrig (2, 3) , Riadh Dhaou (1, 3) , Hanen Idoudi (4, 1) , Leila Azzouz Saidane (4)

1 IRIT-RMESS - Réseaux, Mobiles, Embarqués, Sans fil, Satellites
2 IRIT-SC - Signal et Communications
3 Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse)
4 CRISTAL - Centre de Recherche Réseau Image SysTème Architecture et MuLtimédia

In this paper, we present a solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) energy saving problem while ensuring a continuous tracking of a mobile target. Our tracking algorithm is based on three zones, and according to the target placement in those zones, the UAV will do a specific type of actions. We proposed an additional zone called the authorized zone. In this zone, the UAV keeps a fixed velocity and a fixed altitude, and this contributes to the limitation of the energy consumption while also maintaining a minimal altitude. We also proposed an adapted criterion which considers the velocity, altitude and acceleration changes to evaluate the energy consumption. The idea here is to limit the number of the UAV adjustments to reduce the energy consumption and still keeping the target in its camera field of view.

Mots clés: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); Mobile target; Tracking; Camera field of view; Energy consumption

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Système d'exploitation [cs.OS]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Systèmes embarqués

Mouna Elloumi, Benoît Escrig, Riadh Dhaou, Hanen Idoudi, Leila Azzouz Saidane. Designing an energy efficient UAV tracking algorithm. 13th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments (IWCMC 2017), Jun 2017, Valence, Spain. pp.127-132, ⟨10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986274⟩. ⟨hal-02871316⟩