Neutrosophic TOPSIS method for technology evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Abstract

The utilizations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly more popular today and been successfully demonstrated for various civil and military applications. In these applications, one of the most critical issue is networking between UAVs and ground control points due to requirements of efficient control and sustainable path for data transmission. Since UAV nodes are extremely dynamic and provide a vast range of applications, selection process of the most appropriate network controller technology is extremely complex and can be considered as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. In this paper, a neutrosophic TOPSIS method has been suggested to evaluate the network controllers and relays of the UAV alternatives. The proposed methodology is applied for the evaluation of the most appropriate control technology for UAVs.