Dynamic Multi-UAV Cooperative Reconnaissance Task Assignment Based on ICNP

Aiming at the problem of poor timeliness and large communication volume in the traditional contract network protocol (CNP) when dealing with the dynamic multi-UAV cooperative reconnaissance task assignment problem, this paper proposes an improved contract network protocol (ICNP). Firstly, the multi-base, battlefield risk and other factors are considered to establish the multi-UAV cooperative reconnaissance task assignment model; secondly, the credit mechanism and selection mechanism are introduced into the traditional CNP, which improves the bidding efficiency and optimizes the bidding scope; finally, the simulation results show that the ICNP can significantly reduce the system traffic and improve the problem solving timeliness without reducing the reconnaissance efficiency for complex dynamic assignment problem. Keywords Multi-UAV; cooperative reconnaissance; dynamic; task assignment; contract network protocol.