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Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios

Multirotor drones are becoming increasingly popular in a number of application fields, with a unique appeal to the scientific community and the general public. Applications include security, monitoring and surveillance, environmental mapping, and emergency scenario management: in all these areas, tw...

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Autores principales: Bisio, Isabella-Sole, Morando, Luca, Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso, Sgorbissa, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35445081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.820239
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author Bisio, Isabella-Sole
Morando, Luca
Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso
Sgorbissa, Antonio
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Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso
Sgorbissa, Antonio
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description Multirotor drones are becoming increasingly popular in a number of application fields, with a unique appeal to the scientific community and the general public. Applications include security, monitoring and surveillance, environmental mapping, and emergency scenario management: in all these areas, two of the main issues to address are the availability of appropriate software architectures to coordinate teams of drones and solutions to cope with the short-term battery life. This article proposes the novel concepts of Social Drone Sharing (SDS) and Social Charging Station (SCS), which provide the basis to address these problems. Specifically, the article focuses on teams of drones in pre- and post-event monitoring and assessment. Using multirotor drones in these situations can be difficult due to the limited flight autonomy when multiple targets need to be inspected. The idea behind the SDS concept is that citizens can volunteer to recharge a drone or replace its batteries if it lands on their property. The computation of paths to inspect multiple targets will then take into account the availability of SCSs to find solutions compatible with the required inspection and flight times. The main contribution of this article is the development of a cloud-based software architecture for SDS mission management, which includes a multi-drone path-optimization algorithm taking the SDS and SCS concepts into account. Experiments in simulation and a lab environment are discussed, paving the path to a larger trial in a real scenario.
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spelling pubmed-90137532022-04-19 Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios Bisio, Isabella-Sole Morando, Luca Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso Sgorbissa, Antonio Front Robot AI Robotics and AI Multirotor drones are becoming increasingly popular in a number of application fields, with a unique appeal to the scientific community and the general public. Applications include security, monitoring and surveillance, environmental mapping, and emergency scenario management: in all these areas, two of the main issues to address are the availability of appropriate software architectures to coordinate teams of drones and solutions to cope with the short-term battery life. This article proposes the novel concepts of Social Drone Sharing (SDS) and Social Charging Station (SCS), which provide the basis to address these problems. Specifically, the article focuses on teams of drones in pre- and post-event monitoring and assessment. Using multirotor drones in these situations can be difficult due to the limited flight autonomy when multiple targets need to be inspected. The idea behind the SDS concept is that citizens can volunteer to recharge a drone or replace its batteries if it lands on their property. The computation of paths to inspect multiple targets will then take into account the availability of SCSs to find solutions compatible with the required inspection and flight times. The main contribution of this article is the development of a cloud-based software architecture for SDS mission management, which includes a multi-drone path-optimization algorithm taking the SDS and SCS concepts into account. Experiments in simulation and a lab environment are discussed, paving the path to a larger trial in a real scenario. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9013753/ /pubmed/35445081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.820239 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bisio, Morando, Recchiuto and Sgorbissa. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Morando, Luca
Recchiuto, Carmine Tommaso
Sgorbissa, Antonio
Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title_full Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title_fullStr Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title_full_unstemmed Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title_short Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios
title_sort social drone sharing to increase uav patrolling autonomy in pre- and post-emergency scenarios
topic Robotics and AI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35445081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.820239
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