UAV Swarm with Mesh Radios: Development Update

EasyChair Preprint 1797

Abstract

Many of the swarms demonstrated today lack a key piece in order to be useful in the real-world: communication. Our most basic and commonly used communication infrastructure such as cellular networks and WiFi, assume that communication is facilitated by a centralized actor or controller. This falls short in a swarm setting. We demonstrate that the technology exists to take swarms to the next level and enable new fully decentralized swarms for novel applications.

Keyphrases: Swarm, UAV, communication, distributed control, mesh network

@booklet{EasyChair:1797,
  author    = {Sondre Engebråten and Olav Rune Nummedal and Don Gilbreath and Oleg Yakimenko and Kyrre Glette},
  title     = {UAV Swarm with Mesh Radios: Development Update},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 1797},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}