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Virtual Environment Mapping Module to Manage Intelligent Flight in an Indoor Drone

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This paper presents a Virtual Environment Mapping (VEM) module assembled in an indoor drone in order to be used by creative industries. This module is in charge of allowing users to capture the environment where the final recording will take place. Having a virtual representation of the environment allows both the photography director and the director to test different camera trajectories, points of view, speeds and camera configuration without the need to be physically in the recording set. The digitization of the scene will be performed with a 3D camera on-board of the drone. This paper discusses the overall VEM architecture, taking into account the requirements it has to fulfil. It will also present a working demo of the system, with the communication infrastructure in place and with a proof of concept of the main components of system.

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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 732433 (reference: H2020-ICT-2016-2017, www.airt.eu).

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    Giovanny-Javier Tipantuña-Topanta, Francisco Abad, Ramón Mollá, Juan-Luis Posadas-Yagüe & Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan

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Tipantuña-Topanta, GJ., Abad, F., Mollá, R., Posadas-Yagüe, JL., Poza-Lujan, JL. (2018). Virtual Environment Mapping Module to Manage Intelligent Flight in an Indoor Drone. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_8

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