Research Article
Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.AUTONOMICS2008.4642, author={Markus Quaritsch and Emil Stojanovski and Christian Bettstetter and Gerhard Friedrich and Hermann Hellwagner and Bernhard Rinner and Michael Hofbaur and Mubarak Shah}, title={Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges}, proceedings={8th International ICST Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={MINEMA}, year={2011}, month={12}, keywords={microdrones networked autonomous systems mission planning aerial imaging formation flight}, doi={10.4108/ICST.AUTONOMICS2008.4642} }- Markus Quaritsch
Emil Stojanovski
Christian Bettstetter
Gerhard Friedrich
Hermann Hellwagner
Bernhard Rinner
Michael Hofbaur
Mubarak Shah
Year: 2011
Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges
MINEMA
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.AUTONOMICS2008.4642
Abstract
Microdrones are small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying payloads such as cameras and sensors. Such microdrones enable us to obtain a bird's eye view of the environment which is helpful in many applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance or disaster management.
This position paper reports on our recently launched project "collaborative microdrones" where we are developing a system for aerial imaging based on cooperating, wireless networked microdrones that can be used in disaster management applications. Several microdrones will fly in formation over the area of interest and deliver sensor data which is fused, analyzed and delivered to the user in real-time. In this paper we briefly discuss applications for UAVs, present related projects, introduce our research focus and report on preliminary results.
