Abstract

Swarm UAV autonomous flight for Long-Horizon (LH) tasks is crucial for advancing the low-altitude economy. However, the maximum trajectory length in existing swarm UAV autonomous flight datasets is limited to 15 seconds per flight path, which fails to explore LH tasks. This paper presents U2UData-2, the first large-scale swarm UAV autonomous flight dataset for LH tasks and the first scalable data collection platform. The dataset is captured by 15 UAVs in autonomous collaborative flights for LH tasks, comprising 12 scenes (weather and terrain combination), 720 traces, 120 hours (each trace 10 minutes), 4.32M LiDAR frames, and 12.96M RGB frames. They also include brightness, temperature, humidity, smoke, and airflow values covering all flight routes. The data collection platform supports the customization of simulators, UAVs, sensors, flight algorithms, formation modes, and LH tasks. Through its visual control window, U2UData-2 allows users to collect customized datasets through one-click deployment online and to verify algorithms by closed-loop simulation. U2UData-2 can be found at https://fengtt42.github.io/U2UData-2/.

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U2UData-2 Demo.

Real-world Mapping Simulator

Overview
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Landcsape
Sunny
Rain
Snow
Sandstorm
Fog
Thunder
Wind
Lake Side
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Landcsape

Scalable Simulator

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Scalable animal quantity and activity range.
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Visual control window.
Customized video demo.
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Scalable simulator
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Scalable simulator
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Scalable simulator

U2UData-2 Dataset Setting

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Sensor positions
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Sensor types
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Scene settings. ESTN:The trajectory number of each scene.
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Data collection settings. ET-Length:The length of each trajectory.
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Discipline formation mode
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Fixed formation mode
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Autonomous formation mode
U2UData-2 Demo.

U2UData-2 Dataset Analysis

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A detailed comparison of swarm UAV datasets. -indicates that specific information is not provided. DF:Discipline formation mode; FF:Fixed formation mode; AF:Autonomous formation mode. ET-Length: Each Trajectory Length. U2USim★ represents the scalable U2USim.
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A detailed comparison of the data size between U2UData-2 with existing swarm UAV datasets.

Long-Horizon Tasks

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Collaborative communication
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Collaborative perception
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Collaborative localization
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Collaborative perception
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Collaborative communication
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Collaborative task re-allocation

Cite

U2UData is nominated for the Best Paper in ACM Multimedia 2024.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3664647.3681151,
author = {Feng, Tongtong and Wang, Xin and Han, Feilin and Zhang, Leping and Zhu, Wenwu},
title = {U2UData: A Large-scale Cooperative Perception Dataset for Swarm UAVs Autonomous Flight},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
pages = {7600–7608},
numpages = {9}
}

Team

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Tongtong Feng
People2
Xin Wang
People3
Feilin Han
People4
Leping Zhang
People5
Wenwu Zhu

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