Paper Info
Title
Dronemap Planner: A service-oriented cloud-based management system for the Internet-of-Drones.
Abstract
11Video demonstrations and a video presentation providing a summary of the paper can be found at https://goo.gl/EDvxhk. Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are increasingly gaining interest for enabling novel commercial and civil Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. However, there are still open challenges that restrain their real-world deployment. First, drones typically have limited wireless communication ranges with the ground stations preventing their control over large distances. Second, these low-cost aerial platforms have limited computation and energy resources preventing them from running heavy applications onboard. In this paper, we address this gap and we present Dronemap Planner (DP), a service-oriented cloud-based drone management system that controls, monitors and communicates with drones over the Internet. DP allows seamless communication with the drones over the Internet, which enables their control anywhere and anytime without restriction on distance. In addition, DP provides access to cloud computing resources for drones to offload heavy computations. It virtualizes the access to drones through Web services (SOAP and REST), schedules their missions, and promotes collaboration between drones. DP supports two communication protocols: (i.) the MAVLink protocol, which is a lightweight message marshaling protocol supported by commodities Ardupilot-based drones. (ii.) the ROSLink protocol, which is a communication protocol that we developed to integrate Robot Operating System (ROS)-enabled robots into the IoT. We present several applications and proof-of-concepts that were developed using DP. We demonstrate the effectiveness of DP through a performance evaluation study using a real drone for a real-time tracking application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.adhoc.2018.09.013
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Unmanned aerial vehicle,IoD,MAVLink,ROS,Cloud
Computer science,Marshalling,Computer network,SOAP,Drone,Robot,Web service,Communications protocol,Distributed computing,Cloud computing,The Internet
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
86
1570-8705
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
14
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anis Koubía1414.58
Basit Qureshi212513.11
Mohamed-foued Sriti3253.89
Azza Allouch4142.09
Yasir Javed5100.70
Maram Alajlan6101.04
Omar Cheikhrouhou76611.71
Mohamed Khalgui829956.01
Eduardo Tovar996197.03