Architecture Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mission Planning System

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mission planning system (MPS) refers to assigning missions to each UAV according to the missions to be accomplished, the number of UAVs and the different mission payloads, and making flight routes through route planning technology. In this paper, starting from the concept of UAV mission planning, the information requirement environment and construction requirement of UAV mission planning system is analyzed. Then the basic architecture and modular design of UAV mission planning is summarized. At last, the problems of UAV mission planning and the development trend of UAV mission planning system is discussed. Concept of UAV Mission Planning With the continuous progress of modern information technology and the development of information warfare, UAV s combat mission has developed from single mission to multi-mission. It has developed from target-based to reconnaissance and surveillance missions. At the same time, it has developed to target location and fire negotiation, communication relay, electronic warfare, ground attack, air early warning and other directions. The tactical application of UAVs has also developed from single combat to formation operations between UAVs and hybrid formation operations between UAVs and manned fixed-wing aircraft/armed helicopters. The development of UAV combat mission and the change of tactical application put forward new requirements for mission planning. The requirement of intelligence, effectiveness and real-time decision-making is much higher than before. However, the traditional manual/semi-manual method for UAV mission planning has a long response time and weak processing capacity, which cannot fully utilize the performance of UAV, and it is difficult to meet the operational requirements. UAV mission planning system (MPS) is based on the missions to be accomplished, the number of UAVs and the different mission payloads, assigning missions to each UAV and formulating flight routes through route planning technology. In the process of flight, UAV mission payloads can be controlled in order to complete reconnaissance, attack, evaluation and other missions. The main functions of UAV mission planning are as follows: (1) Mission allocation [1, 2]: Through the mission planning system, reasonable plan is carried out among multi-mission, multi-objective and multi-UAV. The different payloads and performance of UAV is fully considered and the UAV and its payload resources are reasonably allocated. The objective is to minimize the time and cost to achieve and complete the assigned missions. (2) Route planning [3, 4]: Formulate the flight path of the take-off, landing, approaching to the monitoring point, reconnaissance of monitoring area, departure from the monitoring point, return flight and emergency flight of the aircraft, which requires that the threat cost of missiles, radar, etc. and fuel consumption cost of the UAV are minimized. Process of UAV Mission Planning The main objective of UAV mission planning is to plan one or more optimal or satisfactory routes for UAV from the starting point to the target point based on terrain information and enemy International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Big Data Analysis (MSBDA 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Computer Science Research, volume 91