COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS
Exponential progress in integrated circuits, best described by Moore’s Law, has enabled tremendous advances in applied computing. Today, more than ever, there are palm-sized embedded devices with computational capabilities millions of times greater than those of what was once the lead computer on th...
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| author | Damir Nozica Damir Blazevic Tomislav Keser |
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| description | Exponential progress in integrated circuits, best described by Moore’s Law, has enabled tremendous advances in applied computing. Today, more than ever, there are palm-sized embedded devices with computational capabilities millions of times greater than those of what was once the lead computer on the Apollo 11 mission. Such levels of integration enable the fusion of functionalities that were once unimaginable, or at least impractical. Furthermore, today’s existing technologies rely mostly on one or two communication technologies to organize UAVs for efficient search and rescue missions that largely do not utilize the communication convergence principle, thus omitting the potential for better search yield and rescue success. This paper recognizes that niche where communication convergence lacks its potential and presents a concept for the convergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa and/or satellite IoT communication technologies to serve as an airborne communication infrastructure, a backbone generally, and enables a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to communicate efficiently wherever there is no local terrestrial communication infrastructure (such as GSM, Wi-Fi, digital radio, etc.). The concept was elaborated and applied to a use-case localization application scenario (of Wi-Fi enabled devices) for the purpose of search during rescue operations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a115f05e397344ce85239a9f538910312023-12-02T22:17:09ZengThe Serbian Academic CenterApplied Engineering Letters2466-46772466-48472023-06-0182809010.18485/aeletters.2023.8.2.5COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONSDamir Nozica0Damir Blazevic1Tomislav Keser2Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, CroatiaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, CroatiaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, CroatiaExponential progress in integrated circuits, best described by Moore’s Law, has enabled tremendous advances in applied computing. Today, more than ever, there are palm-sized embedded devices with computational capabilities millions of times greater than those of what was once the lead computer on the Apollo 11 mission. Such levels of integration enable the fusion of functionalities that were once unimaginable, or at least impractical. Furthermore, today’s existing technologies rely mostly on one or two communication technologies to organize UAVs for efficient search and rescue missions that largely do not utilize the communication convergence principle, thus omitting the potential for better search yield and rescue success. This paper recognizes that niche where communication convergence lacks its potential and presents a concept for the convergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa and/or satellite IoT communication technologies to serve as an airborne communication infrastructure, a backbone generally, and enables a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to communicate efficiently wherever there is no local terrestrial communication infrastructure (such as GSM, Wi-Fi, digital radio, etc.). The concept was elaborated and applied to a use-case localization application scenario (of Wi-Fi enabled devices) for the purpose of search during rescue operations.https://aeletters.com/vol8-no2-5/communication convergenceaerial search and rescueuav swarmuav formation topology |
| spellingShingle | Damir Nozica Damir Blazevic Tomislav Keser COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS Applied Engineering Letters communication convergence aerial search and rescue uav swarm uav formation topology |
| title | COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS |
| title_full | COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS |
| title_fullStr | COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS |
| title_full_unstemmed | COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS |
| title_short | COMMUNICATION CONVERGENCE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS |
| title_sort | communication convergence for improvement of the unmanned aerial search and rescue missions |
| topic | communication convergence aerial search and rescue uav swarm uav formation topology |
| url | https://aeletters.com/vol8-no2-5/ |
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