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Wide Area Surveillance Using Limited-Flying-Time Helicopters

Authors:
Kenichi Mase

Keywords: disaster; surveillance; ad-hoc network; wireless; electric vehicle.

Abstract:
Sensor networks can be useful for disaster recovery. It is essential how to realize time-efficient and pervasive surveillance over a wide disaster-affected area. A surveillance architecture based on collaboration among multiple electric helicopters is presented. Area division principles are used considering cost minimization as well as considering the requirements of allowable surveillance time, and transmission range and effective bandwidth of the wireless link. A simple model and methodology for area division considering the battery-capacity-limited flying range are presented. Numerical examples show the feasibility of the area division approach.

Pages: 54 to 59

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-374-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014