Using a Drone Formation with Sectored Antennas in Search-And-Rescue: Heuristics for Orienting Drones and Moving the Formation

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dc.contributor.authorPell S
dc.contributor.authorWillig, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-01T22:35:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-01T22:35:33Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.date.updated2022-07-01T01:46:58Z
dc.description.abstractRecently there has been interest in using drones/unmanned aerial vehicles in search-and-rescue applications. Here we apply a formation of drones equipped with sectorised antennae to navigate to a transmitter using Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation to navigate. We present results indicating that the error of the DoA estimate is dependent on the DoA and evaluate a mitigation technique, finding that incrementally changing the drone orientation across the formation reduces the DoA estimation error. Further, we investigate a “dumbbell” formation in which the two “weights” generate independent DoA estimates, the difference between which are used to broadly classify the distance to the transmitter. We found that the choice of distance thresholds and relative direction of the transmitter substantially changes the performance of this distance heuristic.en
dc.identifier.citationPell S, Willig A (2022). Using a Drone Formation with Sectored Antennas in Search-And-Rescue: Heuristics for Orienting Drones and Moving the Formation. Virtual conference: IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Vehicular Networking Conference (PIMRC). 12/09/2022-15/09/2022.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/104050
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectdirection-of-arrival estimationen
dc.subjectsearch and rescueen
dc.subjectUAVen
dc.subjectUAV formationsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::40 - Engineering::4002 - Automotive engineering::400203 - Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systemsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::40 - Engineering::4013 - Geomatic engineering::401303 - Navigation and position fixingen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4601 - Applied computing::460106 - Spatial data and applicationsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4606 - Distributed computing and systems software::460609 - Networking and communicationsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::40 - Engineering::4007 - Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics::400703 - Autonomous vehicle systems
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::40 - Engineering::4007 - Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics::400703 - Autonomous vehicle systems
dc.titleUsing a Drone Formation with Sectored Antennas in Search-And-Rescue: Heuristics for Orienting Drones and Moving the Formationen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Publisheden
uc.collegeFaculty of Engineering
uc.departmentComputer Science and Software Engineering
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