Minimizing Mission Completion Time of UAVs by Jointly Optimizing the Flight and Data Collection Trajectory in UAV-enabled WSNs

Author(s):  
Min Li ◽  
Shuangshuang He ◽  
Hao Li
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Farouq Khoirul Izza ◽  
Muhammad Ariya Praditama ◽  
Claudia Nimas Kirana ◽  
Karnawan Joko Setyono ◽  
Sudarmono Sudarmono

<em><span>The Semarang-Solo Toll Road Project for the Salatiga-Kartasura Section is one part of the Trans Java toll road development project, one of the jobs in the form of an erection girder with the method used, namely the Crane and Launcher methods. The purpose of this study is to compare the completion time between Crane and Launcher Methods with field studies and analysis. Stages of research include literature studies, primary data collection in the form of variable time of completion and secondary data then analyzed by comparing the completion time of the second method of erection girder on girder with a span of 20.8 meters and 40.8 meters. The results of the comparison of completion time were obtained on a 20.8 meter span erection girder seen from the shortest time Crane Method was more efficient 61.44% than the Launcher Method, the longest time Crane Method was more efficient 32.13% of the Launcher Method, and Method average time Crane is more efficient 52.15% than the Launcher Method. Then on the span erection girder 40.8 m seen from the shortest time Crane Method is more efficient 61.48% than the Launcher Method, the longest time Crane Method is more efficient 29.82% than the Launcher Method, and the average time of the Crane Method is more efficient 41, 81% of the Launcher Method.</span></em>


Author(s):  
Berlian Tyasotyaningarum ◽  
Arsita Putri

Abstrak Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini digambarkan secara jelas dan mendetail terkait implementasi (PTSP) dalam mewujudkan pelayanan prima di Dinas Penanaman Modal Dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu Kabupaten Trenggalek. Data diperoleh dari sumber primer dan sekunder. Informan dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari empat (4) informan kunci, tiga (3) informan pendukung, dan adapun teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dengan observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan secara keseluruhan Implementasi PTSP di Dinas Penanaman Modal Dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu untuk kepengurusan pelayanan perizinan sudah dilakukan sesuai dengan SOP dan regulasi yang ada. Komunikasi yang dilakukan antar atasan dan bawahan tentang implementasi juga sudah sesuai dengan aturan, dan komukasi yang dilakukan dengan masyarkat pun juga sudah menyeluruh. Serta untuk waktu penyelesaian, dan biaya terkait pelayanan perizinan juga sudah diatur sesuai dengan SOP yang sudah berlaku. Dilengkapi juga berbagai fasilitas yang lengkap yang ada di Dinas Penanaman Modal Dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu sebagai penunjang kepuasan dan kenyamanan masyarakat. Kata Kunci: Implementasi Progam, PTSP, Pelayanan Prima. Abstract This study uses a qualitative method, this research is described clearly and in detail related to the implementation (PTSP) in realizing excellent service at the Office of Investment and One Stop Integrated Services, Trenggalek Regency. Data obtained from primary and secondary sources. The informants in this study consisted of four (4) key informants, three (3) supporting informants, and the data collection techniques in this study were observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study show that the overall implementation of PTSP in the Office of Investment and One Stop Integrated Services for the management of licensing services has been carried out in accordance with existing SOPs and regulations. Communication between superiors and subordinates regarding implementation is also in accordance with the rules, and communication with the community is also comprehensive. As well as for the completion time, and costs related to licensing services have also been regulated in accordance with the SOP that is already in effect. It is also equipped with various complete facilities available at the Investment Service and One-Stop Integrated Service as a support for community satisfaction and comfort. Keywords: Program Implementation, PTSP, Excellent Service.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
Weichao Pi ◽  
Jianming Zhou

This paper studies interference in a data collection scenario in which multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are dispatched to wirelessly collect data from a set of distributed sensors. To improve the communication throughput and minimize the completion time, we design a joint resource allocation and trajectory optimization framework that not only is compatible with the traditional time-division scheme and interference coordination scheme but also combines their advantages. First, we analyse a basic quasi-stationary scenario with two UAVs and four devices, in which the two UAVs hover at optimal displacements to execute the data collection mission, and it is proven that the proposed optimal resource allocation and trajectory solution is adaptively adjustable according to the severity of the interference and that the common throughput of the network is non-decreasing. Second, for the general mobile case, we design an efficient algorithm to jointly address resource allocation and trajectory optimization, in which we first apply the block coordinate descent method to decompose the original non-convex problem into three non-convex sub-problems and then employ a dedicated genetic algorithm, a penalty function and the sequential convex approximation (SCA) technique to efficiently solve the individual sub-problems and obtain a satisfactory locally optimal solution with an adaptive initialization scheme. Subsequently, numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate that the completion time of the data collection task with our proposed method is at least 25% shorter than those with several baseline dynamic orthogonal schemes when 4 UAVs are deployed. Finally, we provide a practical application principle concerning the maximum suitable number of UAVs to avoid the inherent deficiencies of the proposed algorithm.


Author(s):  
S.W. Hui ◽  
D.F. Parsons

The development of the hydration stages for electron microscopes has opened up the application of electron diffraction in the study of biological membranes. Membrane specimen can now be observed without the artifacts introduced during drying, fixation and staining. The advantages of the electron diffraction technique, such as the abilities to observe small areas and thin specimens, to image and to screen impurities, to vary the camera length, and to reduce data collection time are fully utilized. Here we report our pioneering work in this area.


Author(s):  
Weiping Liu ◽  
Jennifer Fung ◽  
W.J. de Ruijter ◽  
Hans Chen ◽  
John W. Sedat ◽  
...  

Electron tomography is a technique where many projections of an object are collected from the transmission electron microscope (TEM), and are then used to reconstruct the object in its entirety, allowing internal structure to be viewed. As vital as is the 3-D structural information and with no other 3-D imaging technique to compete in its resolution range, electron tomography of amorphous structures has been exercised only sporadically over the last ten years. Its general lack of popularity can be attributed to the tediousness of the entire process starting from the data collection, image processing for reconstruction, and extending to the 3-D image analysis. We have been investing effort to automate all aspects of electron tomography. Our systems of data collection and tomographic image processing will be briefly described.To date, we have developed a second generation automated data collection system based on an SGI workstation (Fig. 1) (The previous version used a micro VAX). The computer takes full control of the microscope operations with its graphical menu driven environment. This is made possible by the direct digital recording of images using the CCD camera.


1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven H. Long ◽  
Lesley B. Olswang ◽  
Julianne Brian ◽  
Philip S. Dale

This study investigated whether young children with specific expressive language impairment (SELI) learn to combine words according to general positional rules or specific, grammatic relation rules. The language of 20 children with SELI (4 females, 16 males, mean age of 33 months, mean MLU of 1.34) was sampled weekly for 9 weeks. Sixteen of these children also received treatment for two-word combinations (agent+action or possessor+possession). Two different metrics were used to determine the productivity of combinatorial utterances. One metric assessed productivity based on positional consistency alone; another assessed productivity based on positional and semantic consistency. Data were analyzed session-by-session as well as cumulatively. The results suggest that these children learned to combine words according to grammatic relation rules. Results of the session-by-session analysis were less informative than those of the cumulative analysis. For children with SELI ready to make the transition to multiword utterances, these findings support a cumulative method of data collection and a treatment approach that targets specific grammatic relation rules rather than general word combinations.


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