5G and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Use Cases

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-69
Author(s):  
Georgios Makropoulos ◽  
Harilaos Koumaras ◽  
Fotini Setaki ◽  
Konstantinos Filis ◽  
Thomas Lutz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Real World ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Autonomous Operation ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
And Control

In the past few years, UAVs have evolved considerably towards real-world applications, going beyond entertaining activities. The unique features that UAVs can provide, such as flexible and easy deployment, high mobility, and mostly autonomous operation, tend to be appealing solutions in a wide variety of applications. With the number of UAVs expected to increase significantly in the forthcoming years, it is deemed mandatory to integrate innovative features of communication technologies in order to tackle several limitations and challenges that exist to date. To this end, the amalgamation of UAVs and 5G cellular networks is an auspicious solution in order to realise the full potential that the UAVs can provide as well as to effectively open up new fields of applications. The unique features that 5G cellular networks offer are utilised for supporting and providing reliable and secure UAV command and control. This chapter provides an overview of the 5G technology to support communication services for the UAV ecosystem.

scholarly journals Automated system for dispatching the movement of unmanned aerial vehicles with a distributed survey of flight tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 728-738
Author(s):  
Dmitry Gura ◽  
Victor Rukhlinskiy ◽  
Valeriy Sharov ◽  
Anatoliy Bogoyavlenskiy
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Military Industry ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Military

Abstract Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received increasing attention and are being used in the areas of harvesting, videotaping, and the military industry. In this article, the consideration is focused on areas where video recording is required for ground inspections. This paper describes modern communication technologies and systems that enable interaction and data exchange between UAVs and a ground control station (GCS). This article focuses on different architectures of communication systems, establishing the characteristics of each to identify the preferred architecture that does not require a significant consumption of resources and whose data transmission is reliable. A coherent architecture that includes multiple UAVs, wireless sensor networks, cellular networks, GCSs, and satellite network to duplicate communications for enhanced system security has been offered. Some reliability problems have been discussed, the solution of which was suggested to be a backup connection via satellite, i.e., a second connection. This study focused not only on the communication channels but also on the data exchanged between system components, indicating the purpose of their application. Some of the communication problems and shortcomings of various systems, as well as further focus areas and improvement recommendations were discussed.

Modeling and control of a quadrotor tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles

2021 ◽  
pp. 095965182110504
Author(s):  
Hongbo Xin ◽  
Yujie Wang ◽  
Xianzhong Gao ◽  
Qingyang Chen ◽  
Bingjie Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Euler Angle ◽  
Level Flight ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Flight Mode ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Hover Flight ◽  
And Control

The tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles have the advantages of multi-rotors and fixed-wing aircrafts, such as vertical takeoff and landing, long endurance and high-speed cruise. These make the tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle capable for special tasks in complex environments. In this article, we present the modeling and the control system design for a quadrotor tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle whose main structure consists of a traditional quadrotor with four wings fixed on the four rotor arms. The key point of the control system is the transition process between hover flight mode and level flight mode. However, the normal Euler angle representation cannot tackle both of the hover and level flight modes because of the singularity when pitch angle tends to [Formula: see text]. The dual-Euler method using two Euler-angle representations in two body-fixed coordinate frames is presented to couple with this problem, which gives continuous attitude representation throughout the whole flight envelope. The control system is divided into hover and level controllers to adapt to the two different flight modes. The nonlinear dynamic inverse method is employed to realize fuselage rotation and attitude stabilization. In guidance control, the vector field method is used in level flight guidance logic, and the quadrotor guidance method is used in hover flight mode. The framework of the whole system is established by MATLAB and Simulink, and the effectiveness of the guidance and control algorithms are verified by simulation. Finally, the flight test of the prototype shows the feasibility of the whole system.

Design And Control Of Plasma Actuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magesh T. Rajan ◽  
Hao Xu ◽  
Clyde Avalos ◽  
Anthony Matheson ◽  
Eric Swinny
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
And Control

Systematic Modeling of Rotor-Driving Dynamics for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2018 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Limin Wu ◽  
Yijie Ke ◽  
Ben M. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Frequency Domain Analysis ◽  
Speed Controller ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Dynamics And Control ◽  
Semi Empirical ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cifer Software ◽  
Systematic Modeling

This paper proposes a systematic modeling approach of rotor-driving dynamics for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on system identification and first principle-based methods. Both steady state response analyses and frequency-domain identifications are conducted for the rotor, and Comprehensive Identification from Frequency Responses (CIFER) software is mainly utilized for the frequency-domain analysis. Moreover, a novel semi-empirical model integrating the rotor and the electrical speed controller is presented and validated. The demonstrated results and model are promising in UAV dynamics and control applications.

Sensorship: the seen unseen of drone warfare

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Holert
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
Blind Spots

Contemporary warfare has been significantly transformed by the promotion and implementation of unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones) into global military operations. Networked remote sensory vision and the drones’ capability to carry deadly missiles entail and facilitate increasingly individualised, racialised, and necropolitical military practices conceptualised as ‘surgical strikes’ or ‘targeted killings’, all in the name of ‘counterinsurgency’. In the absence of publicly accessible documentations of ‘drone vision’, images of drones themselves constitute what is arguably one of the most contested iconographies of the present. The ethical and legal problems engendered by the virtualisation of violence and the panoptical fantasies of persistent vision and continuous threat interfere with the commercial interests and the publicised ideas of ‘clean’ warfare of the military-industrial-media complex. Drones have become a fetishised icon of warfare running out of human measure and control and are henceforth challenged by activist strategies highlighting the blind spots and victims of their deployment.

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Deliver Medical and Emergency Supplies to Remote Areas

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Levi Henderson ◽  
Savern L. Reweti ◽  
Robyn Kamira
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Real World ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
The Real ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

This chapter examines the role of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the delivery of medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. It outlines a number of potential considerations for operators wishing to use UAVs to deliver medical and emergency supplies to remote areas. These considerations address a number of practicalities in terms of the organisation that is wishing to conduct such operations, the operations themselves, and the technology that is used for such operations. These considerations primarily stem from the nature of the international regulatory framework for unmanned aircraft operations and the peculiarities of using a UAV to deliver medical and emergency supplies. The chapter will outline some of the practicalities that have been worked through or are being worked through during a project to deliver medical and emergency supplies in Northland, New Zealand. This will provide readers with examples of some of the real-world considerations that operators face as well as outline the positive community impact that such operations can provide.

scholarly journals Design and Analysis of Collaborative Unmanned Surface-Aerial Vehicle Cruise Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Zhu ◽  
Yuan-Qiao Wen
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Collaborative Model ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Unmanned Surface Vehicle ◽  
Control Networks ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
And Control

With the increasing application of unmanned surface vehicle-unmanned aerial vehicles (USV-UAVs) in maritime supervision, research on their deployment and control is becoming vitally important. We investigate the application of USV-UAVs for synergistic cruising and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed collaborative model. First, we build a collaborative model consisting of the cruise vehicles and communication, detection, and command-and-control networks for the USV-UAV. Second, based on an analysis of the problems faced by collaborative USV-UAV systems, we establish a model to evaluate the effectiveness of such synergistic cruises. Third, we propose a weighting method for each evaluation factor. Finally, a model consisting of one UAV and four USVs is employed to validate our synergistic cruise model.

scholarly journals Multi-Dimensional Human Workload Assessment for Supervisory Human–Machine Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-170
Author(s):  
Jamison Heard ◽  
Julie A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Real World ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Stress Environments

Humans commanding and monitoring robots’ actions are used in various high-stress environments, such as the Predator or MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted unmanned aerial vehicles. The presence of stress and potential costly mistakes in these environments places considerable demands and workload on the human supervisors, which can reduce task performance. Performance may be augmented by implementing an adaptive workload human–machine teaming system that is capable of adjusting based on a human’s workload state. Such a teaming system requires a human workload assessment algorithm capable of estimating workload along multiple dimensions. A multi-dimensional algorithm that estimates workload in a supervisory environment is presented. The algorithm performs well in emulated real-world environments and generalizes across similar workload conditions and populations. This algorithm is a critical component for developing an adaptive human–robot teaming system that can adapt its interactions and intelligently (re-)allocate tasks in dynamic domains.

Multi-UAV Specification and Control with a Single Pilot-in-the-Loop

2020 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 269-277
Author(s):  
Patricio Moreno ◽  
Santiago Esteva ◽  
Ignacio Mas ◽  
Juan I. Giribet
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Simulated Environment ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Space Formulation ◽  
Trajectory Following ◽  
And Control ◽  
Multi Uav

This work presents a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle formation implementing a trajectory-following controller based on the cluster-space robot coordination method. The controller is augmented with a feed-forward input from a control station operator. This teleoperation input is generated by means of a remote control, as a simple way of modifying the trajectory or taking over control of the formation during flight. The cluster-space formulation presents a simple specification of the system’s motion and, in this work, the operator benefits from this capability to easily evade obstacles by means of controlling the cluster parameters in real time. The proposed augmented controller is tested in a simulated environment first, and then deployed for outdoor field experiments. Results are shown in different scenarios using a cluster of three autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles.

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