Multi-UAV Cooperative Reconnaissance Planning Based on Information Sharing

Aiming at the problem that multi-UAV provide reconnaissance services for multiple users at the same time, a new cooperative reconnaissance planning algorithm is proposed. The centralized task assignment strategy based on multi-user demand aggregation is adopted to avoid repeated reconnaissance of the same target. The information sharing strategy based on the demand of a single user is adopted to complete the reconnaissance information of a single UAV to avoid repeated visits of multi-UAV to the same user. An efficient multi-UAV cooperative path planning algorithm is designed to minimize the total energy consumption of multi-UAV. The simulation results show that compared with the traditional UAV reconnaissance method based on single user demand, the proposed method performs better in terms of energy saving, and with the increase of the information overlap rate and the number of users, the energy-saving effect is more significant.