P. Sniatala, Sitharama S. Iyengar, Piotr Kontowicz
{"title":"Drone as a Sensors’ Platform","authors":"P. Sniatala, Sitharama S. Iyengar, Piotr Kontowicz","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210012","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development and growth of UAVs as a remote sensing platforms advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems that drives new application of drones in a variety of fields and disciplines from precision agriculture to ecology, atmospheric research, and disaster response. Drones without sensors would be useless devices. Sensors are required for a proper operation of UAVs. Apart from being “eyes” of drones additional sensors can be installed on UAV platforms to gather extra information. Drone can be used to deliver sensors to area where ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be created. WSN is most often set up in ad-hoc mode by means of small-size devices grouped into network nodes distributed densely over a significant area. The paper makes a concise overview of UAVs as a sensors’ platform. In the context of a hybrid UAV-WSN network a Brooks-Iyengar sensor fusion algorithm is presented.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115674049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Methods for UAVs Identification Based on the Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) of Electronic Devices","authors":"O. N. Ionescu, V. Dumitru","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210007","url":null,"abstract":"The latest decade witness an unprecedented development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), as well as for the infrastructure necessary to integrate these items into the societal life. There are several millions of UAVs ranging from large size for military applications, to small dimensions used for commercial purpose and all of them are waiting for the moment when our society would be able to integrate them in a controlled manner in our life. This chapter presents several possible technologies to unique identify the UAVs and thus to create the proper environment for proper register and monitor them.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130557243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucia Figuli, V. Gattulli, Katarína Hoterová, E. Ottaviano
{"title":"Recent Developments on Inspection Procedures for Infrastructure Using UAVs","authors":"Lucia Figuli, V. Gattulli, Katarína Hoterová, E. Ottaviano","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210003","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, collapsed bridges, belonging to infrastructure networks, evidence the needs of reliable monitoring and inspection routines. Inspections can be a challenge operation in sites difficult to access; specially trained staff like industrial climbers perform the inspection routine, eventually involving large under-bridge units, elevating platforms, or other specialized equipment. In addition, since the inspections are performed manually, the outcomes mainly rely on inspector confidence and experience. This paper discuss the possibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring and inspection of transport infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115244513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scheduling UAV’s on Autonomous Charging Station","authors":"R. Różycki, T. Lemanski, J. Józefowska","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210010","url":null,"abstract":"The paper considers the concept of a charging station for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, drone) fleet. The special feature of the station is its autonomy understood as independence from a constant energy source and an external module for managing its operation. It is assumed that the station gives the possibility to charge batteries of many drones simultaneously. However, the maximum number of simultaneously charged drones is limited by a temporary total charging current (i.e. there is a power limit). The paper proposes a mathematical model of charging a single drone battery. The problem of finding a schedule of charging tasks is formulated, in which the minimum time of the charging process for all drones is assumed as the optimization criterion. Searching for a solution to this problem is performed by an autonomous charging station with an appropriate computing module equipped with a Variable Speed Processor (VSP). To that end an appropriate algorithm is activated (i.e. a computational job), the execution of which consumes a certain amount of limited energy available to the charging station. In the paper we consider energy-aware execution of an implementation of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) as a computational job. The possibility of saving energy by controlling the CPU frequency of a VSP is analyzed. A characteristic feature of the processor is the non-linear relationship between the processing rate and electric power usage. According to this relationship, it turns out that slower execution of the computational job saves electrical energy consumed by the processor.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116314704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Nuianzin, Oleh Kulitsa, M. Pustovit, M. Udovenko
{"title":"Method of Increasing the Availability of Video Information of Aerial Monitoring in the Airspace of a City","authors":"O. Nuianzin, Oleh Kulitsa, M. Pustovit, M. Udovenko","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210009","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the factors that form the threats to the violation of the properties of the availability and integrity of aeromonitoring video information in the system of prevention and elimination of crisis situations. The direction of increasing the availability of video information based on the use of compression technology for encoding video data has been substantiated. It is shown that to eliminate the drawback associated with lowering the lower boundary of the differential polyadic space, it is necessary for the perforation technology to additionally take into account the binary mask of burst elements of the upper and lower levels. The main conceptual components of the image compression method to increase the availability of video information, based on the coding of composite numbers with a mask in a differential perforated polyadic space, have been developed. The main results of a comparative assessment of the basic component of information availability in aeromonitoring systems are presented.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124559266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Drones in Modern Length and Angle Metrology","authors":"M. Wieczorowski, N. Swojak, P. Pawlus, A. Pereira","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210013","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper a possibility of drones application in length and angle metrology was discussed. Some basic issues of metrology in mechanical engineering scale was presented. The use of drones for micro, meso and macro scale was briefly described. Different options and configurations were shown, including benefits and possible problems. Uncertainty issues were also discussed. From that point of view the future of drones in metrology looks bright, as it is also in other areas of human life. Due to rising labor costs, replacing a human being by a system solution is very desirable.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127320735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Idea for an Autonomous Navigation Decision System","authors":"Grzegorz Kopecki","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210005","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an idea for a system taking autonomous navigation decisions. First, the structure of a UAV control system is described. Next, the idea for an autonomous navigation decision system is shown. Algorithms are based on the multi-criteria decision-making system. Possible faults are defined, and they are taken into consideration in the decision-making process. To illustrate the idea simulation results are shown.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124338842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Grondel, M. Colin, M. Zwingelstein-Colin, S. Ghenna, C. Soyer, É. Cattan, O. Thomas
{"title":"Towards the Use of Flapping Wing Nano Aerial Vehicles","authors":"S. Grondel, M. Colin, M. Zwingelstein-Colin, S. Ghenna, C. Soyer, É. Cattan, O. Thomas","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210006","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, the potential of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has generated an enormous interest in this technology and numerous applications have therefore been proposed in military and civilian fields. More recently, researchers have begun to work on a new and miniaturized generation called Flapping Wing Nano Aerial Vehicles (FWNAVs) who could be particularly promising for the indoor inspection. Before to be able to use efficiently these FWNAVs, there are however significant scientific and technical challenges to solve due to the scaling down. These include aerodynamics of low Reynolds number flow, small-scale power generation and power storage, navigation and communication, propulsion and control as well as manufacturability. This paper sets out the potential applications of such FWNAVs and reviews some of the challenges related to aerodynamics, stability, and design trends.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125350037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Use of Drones for Energy Infrastructure Monitoring in Slovakia","authors":"Z. Dvořák, Nikola Chovančíková, B. Leitner","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210004","url":null,"abstract":"Academic science, research and technology companies are currently working intensively on the possibilities of using cutting-edge information and communication technologies in practice. An example of the much-needed deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is energy. This sector of the national economy requires the monitoring of large line and area objects at regular intervals in order to analyse the state of wear and damage of energy equipment. The Slovak Republic, as a modern European country, is working very intensively on the implementation of all available modern technologies in the energy sector. The text of the chapter aims to present and describe the current state of practical use of drones in the energy infrastructure in Slovakia.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125134873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3rd Generation Networks in UAV Vision Systems","authors":"S. Szczȩsny, Damian Huderek","doi":"10.3233/nicsp210011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/nicsp210011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the concept of using Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), i.e. 3rd generation networks for image processing in UAV vision systems. The discussion concerns the complexity of various network models and basic limitations of hardware implementations of classifiers based on such networks. This chapter provides an example of classifying objects using SNN and discusses the implementation complexity of such networks.","PeriodicalId":403554,"journal":{"name":"Modern Technologies Enabling Safe and Secure UAV Operation in Urban Airspace","volume":"19 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120832497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}