Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric US

Andre Cire

The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform a mission. The method comprises receiving request data for the mission, obtaining assignments corresponding to one or more UAVs of the fleet of UAVs, and obtaining assignment data corresponding to each assignment. The method further comprises determining an assignment for the one or more UAVs by performing a first stage of a multi-stage optimization subject to a first set of constraints and updating the first list of assignments by adding the determined assignment to the first list of assignments. The method further comprises determining a second list of assignments for the one or more UAVs by performing a second stage of the multi-stage optimization subject to a second set of constraints and controlling the one or more UAVs based on the second list of assignments.

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Toronto, Canada

Andre Cire