A Survey on Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Autonomous Inspections

TY - GEN

T1 - A Survey on Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Autonomous Inspections

AU - Shi, Liping

AU - Hernandez Marcano, Nestor Javier

AU - Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg

PY - 2019/8

Y1 - 2019/8

N2 - The system design of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) poses several challenges for the wireless communication concerning performance, resiliency, and scalability. The UAV system is typically restricted by flying time limitations due to energy constraints and can benefit from coordination of tasks among UAVs. It may further profit from cooperation between UAVs to share information context, maintain flying formation, extend communication range etc. In this paper, we review communication schemes for clusters of autonomous UAVs cooperation. Performance metrics for assessing those schemes are investigated. We provide a survey of candidate wireless communication technologies considering a power line inspection target application. Performance measurements and UAV related channel modeling of those candidate technologies are reviewed. We present how the requirements of the UAVs communication system are identified through the application specification.

AB - The system design of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) poses several challenges for the wireless communication concerning performance, resiliency, and scalability. The UAV system is typically restricted by flying time limitations due to energy constraints and can benefit from coordination of tasks among UAVs. It may further profit from cooperation between UAVs to share information context, maintain flying formation, extend communication range etc. In this paper, we review communication schemes for clusters of autonomous UAVs cooperation. Performance metrics for assessing those schemes are investigated. We provide a survey of candidate wireless communication technologies considering a power line inspection target application. Performance measurements and UAV related channel modeling of those candidate technologies are reviewed. We present how the requirements of the UAVs communication system are identified through the application specification.

KW - Cooperation

KW - Inspection

KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

KW - Wireless communication

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85074928195

U2 - 10.1109/DSD.2019.00088

DO - 10.1109/DSD.2019.00088

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-7281-2863-4

SP - 580

EP - 587

BT - Proceedings - Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2019

PB - IEEE

T2 - 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design

Y2 - 28 August 2019 through 30 August 2019

ER -