Paper Info
Title
Communication provision for a team of remotely searching UAVs: A mobile relay approach
Abstract
In many applications it is desirable to deploy unmanned autonomous vehicles to remote real-world locations, at considerable distance from any fixed infrastructure, rendering direct communication impossible; for example in the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSaR) scenario. However, data transfer between such vehicles and other participants is required for control, safety, monitoring progress and sharing of acquired information. This paper proposes a method of using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a highly mobile relay, providing a delay tolerant link between a fixed base-station and a team of searching UAVs to meet this vital communication need. A communication model is described that permits a single relay to simultaneously collect data from multiple operational UAVs at pre-arranged meetings, both theoretical and experimental simulation results demonstrate the characteristics and effectiveness of this approach in a realistic cooperative sensing scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477815
GLOBECOM Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
relay networks (telecommunication),radio links,unmanned autonomous vehicle,wireless communications,communication model,relay model,unmanned aerial vehicle,delay tolerant link,wilderness search and rescue,wisar,multi-robot systems,remotely searching uav,autonomous aerial vehicles,delay tolerant networks,mobile radio,remote real-world location,telecommunication control,uav,mobile relay approach,base-station,communication provision,data transfer
Mobile radio,Mobile relay,Search and rescue,Data transmission,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Models of communication,Rendering (computer graphics),Relay
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2166-0069
978-1-4673-4940-6
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunbo Luo1746.58
Paul Ward250.46
Stephen Cameron361.50
Gerard Parr4535.80
Sally Mcclean51029132.29