Difference between revisions of "Deployment areas and challenges"

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Group 1

What are the main civil applications?

• survaillance
• broadcasting
• inspection
• agricultural and habitat monitoring
• documentation
• incident sites for insurances
• complement remote sensing
• drone follow me every day

1.5 UAVs:

• heterogenous types of devices. car&uav. spider&uav.
• helping steering.
• combine indoor and outdoor exploration

multi UAV:

• distributed view
• different views of a site
• weather measurements / weather forecast / local and global view
• different grid size measurements
• basic infrastructure distribute device
• drop devices somewhere
• cannot be accessed, hazardous environments, leakage of gas.
• access area which is not accessable otherwise

Very few existing applications?

• survaillance
• military use
• fixed wing photogrametry
• MULTI UAV: Art installations: ARS electronica (100 UAVs), like a firework, 3D screen
• parallel operation from sky to earth ( rope from cranes to lift objects)

What are the challenges in deploying an autonomous multi-UAV system in real-world?

• reliability
• system complexity
• flying close, positioning
• spacial and temporal callibration
• control via visual inputs only
• legal issues
• scalability in reality (large number of devices)
• how to know the local situation. how can all the others know the situation
• aerodynamics on small dynamics. playload is the same but devices become smaller
• reducing size reduces risks on fall outs

What can the researchers and engineers do to improve public perception on UAVs?

• have systems ready when we need them - rescue and help situations.
• PR use good wording, difficulty in communication
• infra-camera used to detact small deers in the gras when harvesting
• deliver before you communicate

• address public interests where is need: aid firefighters in wood fires (know wind changes), finding lost mountaineers, traffic survaillance.

• Arts
• Multiple views for Movies
• interactive 3D movies, viewer can choose view point in movie
• multi-actor within gaming?

Group 2

Main civil application

• Features: time critical, large scale, dynamic, 'time-synchronous'-observation application
• City maps
• Disaster management
• Reconnaissance
• 3D reconstruction
• Surveillance
• Search-and-rescue
• Structural health monitoring
• Filming with multiple flying cameras and different payload sensors
• Transportation of medicine
• Infrastructure setup networks

Existing case studies, application

• Disaster management
• Drone adventures
• Matternet
• Area logistics
• Google & WWF
• several EU projects: Arcas - cooperative aerial assembly
• Global Hawk from NASA to chase tornado

Challenges in deployment in real-world

• Coordinated sensing
• Coordinated planning
• Time synchronization
• Environment conditions
• Establishing a reliable communication system
• Business case
• Substantial amount of autonomy
• Safety
• Power management
• Sense-and-avoid

What can researchers do to improve public perception of UAVs?

• Raise awareness: what are the real benefits of the systems?
• Naming it differently - not "drone" but "flying robot" (= it is a system serving you)
• Positive press coverage
• Public awareness events
• Applications for society (e.g. Haiti)
• Ars electronica demonstration

Group 3

Ashutosh Natraj, Alexander Almer, Christian Briese, Hariom Dhungana, Torsten Andre, Hermann de Meer, Wilfried Elmenreich

What are the main non-military applications?

• inspection (e.g., photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, rural areas)
• search/search and rescue operations
• mapping (e.g., 3D reconstruction of cities, construction sites)
• documentation (e.g., archeaological sites, construction work)
• monitoring (e.g., forest fire, wildlife, animal observation)
• video and photography
• surveillance
• toy business
• transportation of goods

• aspects
  • indoor/outdoor
  • single/multi UAVs
  • static/dynamic applications

Existing case studies, applications

• Skyeye environmental monitoring
• Sensefly animal observation, disaster management
• ddp energy Thermography inspection of solar modules
• Matternet Transportation using a network of UAVs
• Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) drones to monitor traffic

What are the challenges in deploying an autonomous multi-UAV system in real-world

• availablity of stable, reliable UAVs
• communication
• synchronization, proper real-time operating system for sensors, clock synchronization, low-jitter communication
• power (management, batteries, efficiency, recharging)
• legal issues, licensing
  • e.g., Luftfahrtgesetz Österreich, changed June 2013
  • AAI-UAS WG: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von UAVs
• social acceptance
• privacy
• safety
• security (theft of drones, manipulation, recovery of lost drones)

What can the researchers and engineers do to improve public perception of UAVs

• publishing - talk about it
  • public awareness for civil UAV applications
  • Drones in Science
  • more media coverage on non-horror stories
  • school competitions
• drones in private/civil use
  • toys (high level)
  • household applications (e.g., rooftop inspection)
  • rural area application (sheep counting, sheparding)
• develop methods which preserve privacy
  • keep actual images onboard and delete them after data extraction
  • see Privacy and Security in Video Surveillance
• form interest group

Example: Image results from Google for keywords drone, uav, mav, quadcopter:

Group 4