Research Article

Path Planning for Multi-Vehicle-Assisted Multi-UAVs in Mobile Crowdsensing

Table 1

Notation and terminology.

NotationDefinition

The set of parking spots
The set of detecting points
The number of parking spots
The number of detecting points
The distance between two different points
The set of ground vehicles
The set of UAVs that the vehicle possesses
The number of ground vehicles
The set of detecting points assigned to the vehicle
The set of detecting points assigned to the parking spot
The speed of ground vehicles
The speed of UAVs
The max flight distance of UAVs
The budget of time
The number of drones of the vehicle
The flight path of at the parking spot
The flight paths of drones possessed by vehicle at the parking spot
Binary indicating whether the route contains the detecting point
Binary indicating whether and are adjacent in the route
The total distance that all drones of the vehicle travels at the parking spot
The route of the vehicle
The travel distance of the vehicle
The time consumed by the vehicle with its drones in the whole sensing mission
The total incentive rewards earned by the vehicle with its drones