Integrated Sensing and Communication in UAV Swarms for Cooperative Multiple Targets Tracking

Longyu Zhou, Supeng Leng, Qing Wang, Qiang Liu

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Abstract

Various interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) devices have emerged, led by the intelligence of the IoT, to realize exceptional interaction with the physical world. In this context, UAV swarm-enabled Multiple Targets Tracking (UAV-MTT), which can sense and track mobile targets for many applications such as hit-and-run, is an appealing topic. Unfortunately, UAVs cannot implement real-time MTT based on the traditional centralized pattern due to the complicated road network environment. It is also challenging to realize low-overhead UAV swarm cooperation in a distributed architecture for the real-time MTT. To address the problem, we propose a cyber-twin-based distributed tracking algorithm to update and optimize a trained digital model for real-time MTT. We then design a distributed cooperative tracking framework to promote MTT performance. In the design, both short-distance and long-distance distributed tracking cooperation manners are first realized with low energy consumption in communication by integrating resources of sensing and communication. Resource integration promotes target sensing efficiency with a highly successful tracking ratio as well. Theoretical derivation proves our algorithmic convergence. Hardware-in-the-loop simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can remarkably save 65.7% energy consumption in communication compared to other benchmarks while efficiently promoting 20.0% sensing performance.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9839387
Pages (from-to)6526-6542
Number of pages17
JournalIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Volume22
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Integrated sensing and communication
  • UAV swarm
  • Target tracking
  • cyber-twin

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