Journal
FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.614206
Keywords
UAV (drone); RSSI (received signal strength indication); underground; subterranean; radio signal
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [637972]
- DGA-Inria project U-Drone
- ANR/DGA ASTRID project Proxilearn [ANR-19-ASTR-0009]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-19-ASTR-0009] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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The paper introduces a distributed algorithm called U-Chain for coordinating a chain of flying robots between an exploration drone and an operator. The algorithm uses measurement of signal quality and estimates of ground speed based on an optic flow sensor, leveraging distributed policy and Kalman filter for reliable signal quality estimates. Evaluation was done formally and in simulation with real miniature quadrotors and a base station.
Miniature multi-rotors are promising robots for navigating subterranean networks, but maintaining a radio connection underground is challenging. In this paper, we introduce a distributed algorithm, called U-Chain (for Underground-chain), that coordinates a chain of flying robots between an exploration drone and an operator. Our algorithm only uses the measurement of the signal quality between two successive robots and an estimate of the ground speed based on an optic flow sensor. It leverages a distributed policy for each UAV and a Kalman filter to get reliable estimates of the signal quality. We evaluate our approach formally and in simulation, and we describe experimental results with a chain of 3 real miniature quadrotors (12 by 12 cm) and a base station.
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