Bio-Inspired UAV Swarm Coordination Control System Architecture Based on UAF Meta-model

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm coordination control system is key to enabling UAVs to accomplish missions collaboratively without conflicts. A series of representative system architectures has been proposed following the top-down decomposition approach, dividing the challenging coordination control problem into several sub-problems. However, these explorations have usually been confined to model details and little has been done in the way of perception of the whole system. To create a unified understanding of the control system, a concept of a bio-inspired UAV swarm coordination control system is proposed in this paper, and the architecture of this system is described based on the domain meta-model (DMM) of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF). Basic components of this conceptual system are extracted from predefined UAF domains, and customized meta-models of the bio-inspired UAV swarm coordination control system are established at each layer on the basis of general UAF DMM with selected standard UAF viewpoints. Introducing model-based system engineering methodology, the architecture description provides relevant developers with intuitive and coherent system perception. This architecture can also help generate a standard development procedure for the coordination control system and a reference for UAV swarm top-level design.