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Títol: Analysis and proposal of strategies for the management of drones' swarms through Wi-Fi technologies

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: LÓPEZ AGUILERA, ELENA

Departament: ENTEL

Títol: Analysis and proposal of strategies for the management of drones' swarms through Wi-Fi technologies

Data inici oferta: 28-09-2023     Data finalització oferta: 28-04-2024


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU DRONS
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Segon director/a (UPC): GARCÍA VILLEGAS, EDUARD
 
Paraules clau:
IEEE 802.11, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi HaLow, drones' swarm
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
Wi-Fi is a widely used technology present in almost all the
consumer electronic devices with connection capabilities. In the
last years, Wi-Fi HaLow has been standardized, which consists in
the Wi-Fi specification for IoT, offering larger coverage ranges
and higher energy efficiency. This project will explore different
strategies for the management of drones' swarms making use of Wi-
Fi and Wi-Fi HaLow interfaces. Programming and simulation tasks
will be carried out for the project development.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the benefits of combining two radio interfaces onboard a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to communicate with a Ground Control Station (GCS) and other UAVs inside a swarm. The goals are to use the IEEE 802.11ah standard (Wi-Fi HaLow) with other Wi-Fi technologies, such as IEEE 802.11ax specification (Wi-Fi 6/6E), to enable real-time video transmission from UAVs to the GCS. Several scenarios in which an UAV swarm performs infrastructure inspection are emulated. During the missions, UAVs have to send real-time video to the GCS through a multihop network when some damage in the infrastructure is found. The emulated scenarios are defined using different architectures and radio technologies. Once the emulations finish, the collected data is transferred to spreadsheets to be analysed. An expression to find the multi-hop network capacity from hops distances is found using the NS-3 simulator and this expression is used to determine the capacity of the multi-hop networks used in the emulations. Then, this expression is applied in the algorithms in charge of composing the multi-hop network to offer on demand quality video. This contribution among others related to new techniques and strategies to build the multi-hop network, are implemented in the emulation program. After performing the emulations with the proposed strategies, the resulting data is analysed and compared among the different scenarios.

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