{"id":6736,"date":"2021-05-11T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:45:49","slug":"journal-paper-on-multidrone-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/?p=6736","title":{"rendered":"Multidrone systems: More than the sum of the parts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Now that drones have evolved from bulky platforms to agile devices, a challenge is to combine multiple drones into an integrated autonomous system, offering functionality that individual drones cannot achieve.<\/p><cite>Rinner, Bettstetter, Hellwagner, Weiss. <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9427128\">Multidrone systems: More than the sum of its parts<\/a>. <em>Computer <\/em>54(5):34-43, 2021.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9427128\" data-type=\"URL\">Multidrone systems: More than the sum of its parts<\/a>\u201c jointly written with my colleagues Christian Bettstetter, Hermann Hellwagner and Stephan Weiss has been published in the May issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/co\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/co\">Computer magazine<\/a>. We discuss required building blocks for multidrone systems along with case studies and lessons learned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multidrone systems (MDSs) have been the subject of our research at the University of Klagenfurt for more than 10 years (go to <a href=\"https:\/\/uav.aau.at\/\">uav.aau.at<\/a>). This article addresses the three key building blocks required to transform multiple single drones into an MDS: connectivity, communication, and coordination. <em>Connectivity <\/em>provides the hardware and software for wireless interconnection among the drones and to the ground; <em>communication <\/em>handles data distribution on top of connectivity; and <em>coordination <\/em>manages the tasks that need to be executed. We discuss the functionalities and design challenges of these blocks, considering the limited onboard resources; report about three case studies with different implementations of the building blocks; and conclude with a discussion of lessons learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that drones have evolved from bulky platforms to agile devices, a challenge is to combine multiple drones into an integrated autonomous system, offering functionality that individual drones cannot achieve. Rinner, Bettstetter, Hellwagner, Weiss. Multidrone systems: More than the sum of its parts. Computer 54(5):34-43, 2021. The paper \u201eMultidrone systems: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}