Aviation Time Minimization of UAV for Data Collection over Wireless Sensor Networks

01/09/2018
by   Jie Gong, et al.
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In this paper, we consider a scenario where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data from a set of sensors on a straight line. The UAV can either cruise or hover while communicating with the sensors. The objective is to minimize the UAV's total aviation time from a starting point to a destination while allowing each sensor to successfully upload a certain amount of data using a given amount of energy. The whole trajectory is divided into non-overlapping data collection intervals, in each of which one sensor is served by the UAV. The data collection intervals, the UAV's navigation speed and the sensors' transmit powers are jointly optimized. The formulated aviation time minimization problem is difficult to solve. We first show that when only one sensor node is present, the sensor's transmit power follows a water-filling policy and the UAV aviation speed can be found efficiently by bisection search. Then we show that for the general case with multiple sensors, the aviation time minimization problem can be equivalently reformulated as a dynamic programming (DP) problem. The subproblem involved in each stage of the DP reduces to handle the case with only one sensor node. Numerical results present insightful behaviors of the UAV and the sensors. Specifically, it is observed that the UAV's optimal speed is proportional to the given energy and the inter-sensor distance, but inversely proportional to the data upload requirement.

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