Multidrone Systems: More Than the Sum of the Parts

Abstract

Now that drones have evolved from bulky platforms to agile devices, a challenge is to combine multiple drones into an integrated autonomous system, offering functionality that individual drones cannot achieve. Such multidrone systems require connectivity, communication, and coordination. We discuss these building blocks along with case studies and lessons learned.

Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems: Generic, Utility-Aware Optimization Middleware

“…The robots are connected using an IEEE 802.11 wireless network in an ad-hoc mode. Examples of such applications are presented in our previous works Barciś and Bettstetter, 2020;Mazdin et al, 2020;Mazdin and Rinner, 2021;Rinner et al, 2021). All of these works are motivated by a use case of a group of UAVs collaboratively performing a 3D reconstruction of an unknown area.…”

Multidrone Mission Execution With EAMOS: From Text to Mission

“…Over the past years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or commonly called drones have proven to be a capable tool in diverse civil domains [1] such as agriculture [2], construction [3], inspection [4], meteorology [5], surveillance [6], photography [7], cinematography [8], consumer entertainment [9], search and rescue [10] and even space exploration [11]. Applications of drones are accordingly manifold and range from exploratory tasks such as visual image mosaicking [12] or simultaneous environment covering tasks [13] to more interactive ones such as fruit harvesting [14] or parcel delivery [15], to name just a few.…”