Biomechanics of flexible wing drones usable for emergency medical transport operations

Pahonie, Radu-Calin; Rață, Mihai; Barbu, Cristian

doi:10.1109/ehb.2015.7391538

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“…1 composed of N = 10 nodes and E = 18 edges. We label the 18 paths, from 1 to 18, as follows: [1, 2, ..., 18] [ (2,5,7), (2,5,8), (2,5,9), (2,6,7), (2,6,8), (2,6,9), (3,5,7), (3,5,8), (3,5,9), (3,6,7), (3,6,8), (3,6,9), (4,5,7), (4,5,8), (4,5,9), (4,6,7), (4,6,8), (4,…”

Section: Numerical Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One prominent time-critical UAV application is drone delivery systems [6]- [15] which can be used to deliver consumer parcels [6], [10]- [12] (with Amazon Prime Air [10] and Google's Project Wing [6] being key examples) as well as emergency medical products [7]- [9].…”

Section: A Time Critical Uav Applications and Security Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…for k ∈ N 0 ; where q n = 1 − p n , T k is the kth possible delivery time, and τ k is the probability of occurrence of T k . Hence, based on the possible delivery times and their likelihood, defined respectively in ( 1) and ( 2), the expected delivery time, E d (n, h), 7 when the interdictor is located at n and the UAV takes path h is given in Proposition 1.…”

Section: Game Under Pure Interdiction Strategies a Game Formulation U...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Theorem 1: The interdictor's SE strategy, n * , is given by: 7 We also use the notations E d (n ∈ h) and E d (n / ∈ h) to highlight whether or not path h contains node n in the computed expected delivery time.…”

Section: B Equilibrium In Pure Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have led to its adoption in various commercial, recreational, and military applications such as telecommunications, surveillance, delivery systems, rescue operations, and intelligence missions [1]- [6]. Due to their ability to reach relatively inaccessible locations (such as natural disaster sites as well as remote mountains, valleys, and forests) and their capacity to travel without being restricted to predefined pathways, UAVs can effectively carry out time-critical missions [1], [7]- [9].…”

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A Game of Drones: Cyber-Physical Security of Time-Critical UAV Applications with Cumulative Prospect Theory Perceptions and Valuations

Sanjab¹,

Saad²,

Başar³

2019

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The effective deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems and services hinges on securing them against cyberphysical attacks that can jeopardize their mission or use them to intrude into secured perimeters. In this paper, a novel mathematical framework is introduced for modeling and analyzing the cyberphysical security of time-critical UAV applications. A general UAV security network interdiction game is formulated to model interactions between a UAV operator and an interdictor, each of which can be benign or malicious. In this game, the interdictor chooses the optimal location(s) from which to target the drone system by interdicting the potential paths of the UAVs. Meanwhile, the UAV operator responds by finding an optimal path selection policy that enables its UAVs to evade attacks and minimize their mission completion time. New notions from cumulative prospect theory (PT) are incorporated into the game to capture the operator's and interdictor's subjective valuations of mission completion times and perceptions of the risk levels facing the UAVs. The equilibrium of the game, with and without PT, is then analytically characterized and studied. Novel algorithms are then proposed to reach the game's equilibria under both PT and classical game theory. Simulation results show the properties of the equilibrium for both the rational and PT cases. The results show that the operator's and interdictor's bounded rationality is more likely to be disadvantageous to the UAV operator. In particular, the more distorted the perceptions and valuations of the operator are, the higher is its achieved expected mission completion time.

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