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This lecture overviews various concepts related to multiple drone communications: LTE and WiFi communications, LTE communication infrastructure, IP network issues, Security analysis, throughput, latency and quality-of-service issues. Video compression and streaming issues are presented as well, embedded compression, video time-stamping, video synchronization a streaming to ground station.

This lecture overviews Drone Communication Networks that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: Drones, FANET, FANET Features, FANET Architectures, Mobility Models, FANET Routing Protocols, Civilian Drones: Safety and Security Aspects, Open issues and challenges.

This lecture overviews various drone mission simulator architectures, notably AirSim and Gazebo. Their use in various drone scenarios are presented: pilot training, synthetic data generation for DNN training, drone cinematography parameter selection based on drone output video quality. Finally various examples of drone mission simulations on Gazebo are presented.

This lecture overviews Drone Swarms that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: Drone swarm architectures, Drone2drone communications, Drone collision avoidance, Drone migration, Drone swarm localization and monitoring.

In this lecture, first the audiovisual shooting mission is formally defined. The introduced audiovisual shooting definitions are encoded in mission planning commands, i.e., navigation and shooting action vocabulary, and their corresponding parameters. The drone mission commands, as well as the hardware/software architecture required for manual/autonomous mission execution are described.  The software infrastructure includes the planning… Continue reading Multiple Drone Mission Planning and Control