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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Energy-Aware Management in Multi-UAV Deployments: Modelling and Strategies.

Victor Sanchez-Aguero, Francisco Valera, Ivan Vidal, Christian Tipantuña, Xavier Hesselbach

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Victor Sanchez-AgueroIMDEA Networks Institute, Avda. del Mar Mediterráneo, 22, 28918 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3079-736X
Francisco ValeraDepartamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5056-0573
Ivan VidalDepartamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7381-971X
Christian TipantuñaDepartment of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Calle Jordi Girona 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Xavier HesselbachDepartment of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Calle Jordi Girona 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

5G-City TEC2016-76795-C6-3-RH2020 5GRANGE 777137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are frequently present in the civilian environment. However, proper implementations of different solutions based on these aircraft still face important challenges. This article deals with multi-UAV systems, forming aerial networks, mainly employed to provide Internet connectivity and different network services to ground users. However, the mission duration (hours) is longer than the limited UAVs' battery life-time (minutes). This paper introduces the UAV replacement procedure as a way to guarantee ground users' connectivity over time. This article also formulates the practical UAV replacements problem in moderately large multi-UAV swarms and proves it to be an NP-hard problem in which an optimal solution has exponential complexity. In this regard, the main objective of this article is to evaluate the suitability of heuristic approaches for different scenarios. This paper proposes betweenness centrality heuristic algorithm (BETA), a graph theory-based heuristic algorithm. BETA not only generates solutions close to the optimal (even with 99% similarity to the exact result) but also improves two ground-truth solutions, especially in low-resource scenarios.

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algorithmsenergy consumptionoptimizationself-organizationUAVUAV fleetUAV replacementUAV swarm

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PMID32422970
PMCPMC7284756

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