Bio-Inspired Drones Recruiting Strategy for Precision Agriculture Domain

UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and it is a flying device characterized by the absence of the pilot on board. Its support in many situations and different applications is able to relieve the human operator thanks to its capacity of having a rapid deployment and quickly performing its action. In order to make its tasks, every UAV/Drone is equipped with a set of on-board sensors specific for each task. One of different applicative fields is the precision agriculture, where, thanks to the possibility of equipping the UAV with on-board cameras, it is able to perform detailed analysis of the health status of the plants intervening suddenly if it is needed. In this paper, coordination protocols applied to the problem of controlling a swarm of UAVs/Drones against parasites attacks to crops has been analysed, studying different approaches in order to measure their performance and costs. One of the problems with these devices concerns the limited quantities of fuel and pesticide. A possible approach to this issue is asking for help to other UAVs/Drones in order to destroy completely the parasites. The idea is to apply the concepts of bio-inspired approach to the recruitment protocols providing performance evaluation in order to give the goodness of the proposal.