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), 29^th 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