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Títol: Communication architecture for UAVs for emergency response scenarios

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: GILABERT PINAL, PERE LLUÍS

Departament: TSC

Títol: Communication architecture for UAVs for emergency response scenarios

Data inici oferta: 18-02-2025     Data finalització oferta: 18-10-2025


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU DRONS
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: Fora UPC    
 
        Supervisor/a extern: Joan Altimira Marfà
        Institució/Empresa: CATUAV
        Titulació del Director/a: Master in Aeronautical Engineering
 
Paraules clau:
Communication, DMW, Network Architecture, Mesh, UAV, BVLOS.
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This Master Thesis contributes to Aerowatch's efforts by designing and testing a drone communication architecture for emergency scenarios, with a specific focus on wildfire prevention and rapid response. Using an experimental design methodology to develop the project.

Based on a brief market analysis, a mesh communication radio is selected as the most suitable option for the proposed architecture. Carrying out preliminary ground evaluations of the chosen device to test its functionality, leading to configuration modifications aimed at enhancing its performance during subsequent flight trials.

For the flights test, a hexacopter drone is assembled to be used as a prototype. Custom-designed 3D-printed mounts were created to fix the mesh radios and their antennas to the drone. Furthermore, a prototype system for fire extinguishing was designed and implemented.

The effectiveness of the chosen mesh radios is tested under real flight conditions, which encompass both short-range operations that fall within visual line of sight (VLOS) and long-range missions that operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). These trials evaluate the capabilities of the radios, followed by additional configuration efforts to improve their communication effectiveness.

Finally, a comprehensive analysis was carried out to assess the suitability of the selected communication radios, by considering factors such as communication range, the latency, packets loss percentage and their throughput.

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