Autonomous Operation of Swarms of UAV/UAS
Ongoing development:
- Swarm missions definition and role assignment to cooperating drones:
- Manual designation of areas and points of interest (POI) to survey
- Allocation of fleets of drones (type/model, capabilities, flight time etc.)
- Algorithm allocates itineraries for each drone as a Routing Definition File (RDF)
- RDF loading into UgCS Ground Control software
- Arming and launching fleet(s) of drones to perform defined mission(s)
- Mission(s) can be aborted, modified and intervened (new one uploaded) at any time
- Routes and actions assigned to each drones can be manually overridden at any time
- Drones are in constant contact with Ground Station (compliant with FAA rules)
- Simultaneous operations of 100+ (synchronized/independent) UAVs in multiple missions
References for further reading
- Artur Krukowski and Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, UAV-based photogrammetric 3D modelling and surveillance of forest wildfires, Workshop on “UAV & SAR: using drones in rescue operations”, ISA, Rome (Italy), 29th of March 2017
- "Advanced Forest Fire Fighting (AF3)" project funded by the European FP7 Research program under Security area:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/185483_en.html and http://af3project.eu
