Noah Kelleher
ABSTRACT
Drone simulators are often used to reduce training costs and prepare operators for various ad-hoc scenarios, as well as to test the quality of algorithmic and communication aspects in collaborative scenarios. An important aspect of drone missions in simulated (as well as real life) environments is the operational lifetime of a given drone, in both solo and collaborative fleet settings. Its importance stems from the fact that the capacity of the on-board batteries in untethered (i.e., free-flying) drones determines the range and/or the length of the trajectory that a drone can travel in the course of its surveilance or delivery missions. Most of the existing simulators incorporate some kind of a consumption model based on different parameters of the drone and its flight trajectory. However, to our knowledge, the existing simulators are not capable of incorporating data obtained from actual physical measurements/observations into the consumption model. In this work, we take a first step towards enabling the (users of) drones simulator to incorporate the speed and direction of the wind into the model and monitor its impact on the battery consumption as the direction of the flight changes relative to the wind. We have also developed a proof-of-concept implementation with DJI Mavic 3 and Parrot ANAFI drones.
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Index Terms
- Wind awareness for energy consumption in drone simulations (demo paper)
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