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
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
What can the researchers and engineers do to improve public perception on UAVs?
- Arts
- Multiple views for Movies
- interactive 3D movies, viewer can choose view point in movie
- multi-actor within gaming?
Group 2
Group 3
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
- 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
- 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:
