ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026
NDIEM: A Networked Drone Information Exchange Model for Heterogeneous UAV Interoperability and Communication.
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The rapid adoption of small drones for applications such as surveillance, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection has increased demand for coordinated multi-drone operations, in which information exchange is essential. However, effective collaboration across different drones remains challenging due to differences in information exchange and communication protocols. This paper proposes a Networked Drone Information Exchange Model (NDIEM), an XML-based model that enables interoperability of the structural information. NDIEM defines five essential element categories: Identification, Telemetry, Command and Control, Sensor, and Mission. NDIEM can be used with protocol-specific adapters for exchanging information in multi-drone operations. The proposed model has been implemented and evaluated on three different drones (an ArduPilot-based Hexacopter, a Crazyflie 2.1, and a Tello EDU) using real sensor telemetry captured under controlled conditions, in which each platform's onboard sensors were manipulated to generate representative telemetry variation. Experimental results demonstrate information interoperability with 0.013-0.019 ms processing overhead, 0.049-0.073 ms transformation latency per message, and XSD schema validation compliance, achieving 69.7% transformation completeness for telemetry data. These findings show that NDIEM can provide a practical and scalable foundation for software development for drone collaboration and interoperability.
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