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.
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Multiple Drone Mission Planning and Control
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
Introduction to Multiple Drone Systems
This lecture will provide the general context for this new and emerging topic, presenting the aims of multiple drone systems, focusing on their sensing and perception. Drone mission formalization, planning and control will be overviewed. Then multiple drone communication issues will be presented, notably drone2ground communication and multisource video streaming. In drone vision, the challenges… Continue reading Introduction to Multiple Drone Systems
Introduction to UAV Multicopters
This lecture overviews Introduction to UAV Multicopters that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: UAV Categories, UAV subsystems, How multicopters fly, Flight modes, Applications in cinematography, surveillance, inspection, agriculture etc.
Autonomous Underwater Vessels
This lecture overviews Autonomous Underwater Vessels that has many applications in ocean engineering. It covers the following topics in detail: AUV technologies, sensors, communications, applications.
Autonomous Surface Vessels
Autonomous marine vessels can be described as surface (boats, ships) and underwater ones (submarines). They have many applications in marine transportation, marine/submarine surveillance and many challenges in environment perception/mapping and vehicle control, to be reviewed in this lecture. The following topics are covered: Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) Applications, ASV types, ASV autonomy types, Basic elements… Continue reading Autonomous Surface Vessels