Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have vast application potential from industrial logistics and disaster monitoring to smart farming, for example, to create maps with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) cameras and AI-based image classification or the precision spot application of fertilizers. Operating multiple UAVs in parallel, including those with different specializations, enables efficient coverage of large areas. While existing research focused mainly on predefined flight formations for swarms or autonomous missions for single UAVs, the focus of this work is on multiple UAVs with individually adaptable missions. We derive communication system requirements from swarm coordination algorithms and present a respective design. The resulting modular architecture enables future research on autonomous adaptive UAV swarms and their use as flying sensor platforms.
A Modular Communication Architecture for Adaptive UAV Swarms
23.07.2023
2574371 byte
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
A Hierarchical and Modular Software Architecture for Task Collaboration of UAV Swarms
Springer Verlag | 2025
|NTRS | 2005
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