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- research-articleJanuary 2025
Impact of urban environments on FANET communication: A comparative study of propagation models
AbstractThe steady rise in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is leading to the development of an ever-growing number of applications. In urban settings, efforts like the U-Space initiative in Europe are striving to standardize and regulate the ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Enabling resilient UAV swarms through multi-hop wireless communications
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN), Volume 2024, Issue 1https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-024-02373-5AbstractIn the last decade, the popularity of UAVs, colloquially known as drones, has increased tremendously. Nowadays, drones are used in a wide range of use-cases, such as precision agriculture, surveillance, and photography. Many of these use-cases can ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
UAV Wireless Communications Performance in Urban Environments
PE-WASUN '23: Proceedings of the Int'l ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous NetworksPages 27–34https://doi.org/10.1145/3616394.3618264As the adoption of UAVs grows steadily, more and more applications are being devised. In the scope of urban environments, initiatives like U-Space in Europe seek to standardize and regulate the different operations that can be undertaken by these ...
- chapterJuly 2023
Feasibility and Performance Benefits of Directional Force Fields for the Tactical Conflict Management of UAVs
Computational Science – ICCS 2023Jul 2023, Pages 387–393https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36030-5_31AbstractAs we move towards scenarios where the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) becomes massive, smart solutions are required to efficiently solve conflicts in the flight trajectories of aircraft so as to avoid potential collisions. Among the ...
- research-articleMay 2023
Assignment and Take-Off Approaches for Large-Scale Autonomous UAV Swarms
- Jamie Wubben,
- Daniel Hernández,
- José M. Cecilia,
- Baldomero Imberón,
- Carlos T. Calafate,
- Juan-Carlos Cano,
- Pietro Manzoni,
- Chai Keong Toh
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS-TRANSACTIONS), Volume 24, Issue 5Pages 4836–4847https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3242765In the last decade, the popularity of UAVs has increased tremendously. Nowadays, many researchers are interested in UAV swarms. Coordinating a swarm of UAVs is a complicated task and many problems should be addressed before wide-spread adoption. In this ...
- research-articleMarch 2023
FFP: A Force Field Protocol for the tactical management of UAV conflicts
AbstractIn recent years, we have seen a tremendous growth in the adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Nowadays, UAVs are used in many different industries such as agriculture, inspection (bridges, pipelines, etc.), parcel delivery, ...
- research-articleNovember 2021
A Collision Avoidance Strategy For Multirrotor UAVs Based On Artificial Potential Fields
- Stefan van der Veeken,
- Jamie Wubben,
- Carlos T. Calafate,
- Juan-Carlos Cano,
- Pietro Manzoni,
- Johann Marquez-Barja
PE-WASUN '21: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous NetworksPages 95–102https://doi.org/10.1145/3479240.3488531Since some years, research on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been very popular, and because of that a wide range of commercial and military applications already exists. Nowadays, the trend towards autonomous flying is growing steadily. ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Evaluating the effectiveness of takeoff assignment strategies under irregular configurations
DS-RT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM 25th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time ApplicationsArticle No.: 27, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT52167.2021.9576125The use of UAVs has been growing steadily over the last years. Now that even the industry is adopting them for a wide range of activities, it can be said with certainty that UAVs will become an important asset for many enterprises. We foresee that, due ...
- research-articleFebruary 2021
Toward secure, efficient, and seamless reconfiguration of UAV swarm formations
Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of interest over the last years due to the many fields of potential application. Nowadays, researchers are becoming interested in groups of UAVs working together. The collaborations between UAVs open a ...
- research-articleApril 2020
A vision-based system for autonomous vertical landing of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Jamie Wubben,
- Francisco Fabra,
- Carlos T. Calafate,
- Tomasz Krzeszowski,
- Johann M. Marquez-Barja,
- Juan-Carlos Cano,
- Pietro Manzoni
Over the last few years, different researchers have been developing protocols and applications in order to land unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) autonomously. However, most of the proposed protocols rely on expensive equipment or do not satisfy the high ...