The investigation capabilities of multilateration for the unmanned aerial vehicle autonomous navigation

The paper discusses the multilateration method to ensure coordinated interaction of unmanned aerial vehicles as a part of a swarm during monitoring of fields in agriculture, checking of the environmental parameters, collecting of the weather data etc. Multilateration will improve the reliability of the control of unmanned aerial vehicles as a part of a swarm and will ensure the autonomy of the actions of individual vehicles. The goal of the work is to assess the potential of using the radiosignal multilateration method to determine the relative position of unmanned aerial vehicles and to create of the software and physical models to test this method. In order to achieve this goal, the work presents the algorithm for the interaction of unmanned aerial vehicles using the multilateration method, a method for solving the problem of determine the location of a signal source at low computational costs and the results of computer and physical modeling of the proposed approaches. The developed models demonstrated their adequacy to the set tasks and revealed some shortcomings of the proposed approach in practical implementation. The work also examines possible situations during the interaction of unmanned aerial vehicles in a swarm and notes the main ways to eliminate shortcomings.

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