Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges

Markus  Quaritsch; Emil  Stojanovski; Christian  Bettstetter; Gerhard  Friedrich; Hermann  Hellwagner; Bernhard  Rinner; Michael  Hofbaur; Mubarak  Shah

8th International ICST Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications

Research Article

Collaborative microdrones: applications and research challenges

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    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

Markus Quaritsch¹^,*, Emil Stojanovski¹^,*, Christian Bettstetter¹^,*, Gerhard Friedrich¹^,*, Hermann Hellwagner¹^,*, Bernhard Rinner¹^,*, Michael Hofbaur²^,*, Mubarak Shah³^,*

1: Klagenfurt University, Austria
2: Graz University of Technology
3: University of Central Florida

*Contact email: markus.quaritsch@uni-klu.ac.at, emil.stojanovski@uni-klu.ac.at, christian.bettstetter@uni-klu.ac.at, gerhard.friedrich@uni-klu.ac.at, hermann.hellwagner@uni-klu.ac.at, bernhard.rinner@uni-klu.ac.at, michael.hofbaur@TUGraz.at, shah@eecs.ucf.edu

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.

Keywords: microdrones networked autonomous systems mission planning aerial imaging formation flight

Published: 2011-12-14
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.AUTONOMICS2008.4642