Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are only being utilized in a limited number of sectors, such as agriculture, cinematography, photogrammetry, or research. The implementation of formation flight could greatly enhance the applicability and make the UAVs operate more effectively. This paper analyses the contemporary state of implementation of UAVs in conditions of their flight in formations, mechanisms by which the formations are coordinated and proposes their further use in the future. We also analyse the possibilities and use cases of development of technology applicable for coordination of multiple UAVs flying in formations. Furthermore, we discuss implementation of advanced mission planning and swarming software, on the usage of specifically chosen hardware and structural components for construction of advanced UAVs capable of coordinated flight in formations or swarms. These formations are configurable to take form of various shapes dependent of the particular application demanded by the operator. For instance, UAV formations could be greatly utilized by delivery companies, for search and rescue purposes or intra city medical material transport between hospitals. All analyses, data collection, monitoring and control are done virtually. This methodology serves to optimalization the swarm flying, without the need of real experimental flights.


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    Title :

    Use of Computer Simulation to Optimize UAV Swarm Flying


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    Publication date :

    2022-11-24


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    6168746 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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