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A Quadcopter Controller to Maintain Radio Link Quality

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Mohammed Ayyoob Ahamed Hamza,

Chamath Keppitiyagama,

Kasun de Zoysa,

Venkatraman Iyer,

Kasun Hewage,

Thiemo VoigtAuthors Info & Claims

DroNet '15: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use

Pages 21 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/2750675.2750678

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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The excellent maneuverability and the availability of a large number of sensors including good quality video cameras make quadcopters attractive for surveillance systems. Most video surveillance systems need a real-time high quality video stream from the cameras on the quadcopter to the base station which requires a stable and reliable radio link. Moreover, to ensure a controlled flight, it is essential to maintain a good quality radio link from the base station to the quad- copter. The quality of this link depends on the distance between base station and quadcopter as well as the ambient noise. Towards this end, we present a controller to hover a quadcopter at the maximum distance from the base station while maintaining the link quality at a given value indicated by the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). There are existing solu- tions in the field of robotics that incorporate the concept of link aware mobility. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first link-quality aware mobility implementation on a quadcopter.

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DroNet '15: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use

May 2015

66 pages

ISBN:9781450335010

DOI:10.1145/2750675

General Chairs:
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Academia Sinica
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UCLA
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Karin Anna Hummel
ETH Zurich
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Claudio E. Palazzi
University of Padua
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Fernando NWickramasinghe MDe Zoysa KElvitigala C(2016)A quality metric for object detection and focus for low-cost UAVs2016 Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer)10.1109/ICTER.2016.7829924(237-244)Online publication date: Sep-2016
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