# Persistent Surveillance With Energy-Constrained UAVs and Mobile Charging Stations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05727 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.05727/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Aug 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Learning to Coordinate for a Worker-Station Multi-robot System in Planar Coverage Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.02993/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We address the problem of achieving persistent surveillance over an environment by using energy-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are supported by unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) serving as mobile charging stations. Specifically, we plan the trajectories of all vehicles and the charging schedule of UAVs to minimize the long-term maximum age, where age is defined as the time between two consecutive visits to regions of interest in a partitioned environment. We introduce a scalable planning strategy based on 1) creating UAV- UGV teams, 2) decomposing the environment into optimal partitions that can be covered by any of the teams in a single fuel cycle, 3) uniformly distributing the teams over a cyclic path traversing those partitions, and 4) having the UAVs in each team cover their current partition and be transported to the next partition while being recharged by the UGV. We show some results related to the safety and performance of the proposed strategy.