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Drones Operations and Communications in an Urban Environment

Authors:
Sandeep Shivakoti
Aurelie Aurilla Arntzen bechina
Serkan Güldal
Esther Nistal Cabañas

Keywords: Drones, Network, Communication, IoT, MQTT, RaspberryPi

Abstract:
The last few years have seen a growing interest in Remote piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), adopted in Europe as U-Space by the Warsaw Declaration, have triggered numerous research and development projects on securing drones flights in urban area. The EU project USEPE funded by the Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR) focuses on insuring a safe separation of flying drones in an urban environment. There are many technical and societal challenges to tackle to ensure that drones are safely and securely integrated into European airspace (U-space). For instance, real time communication between millions of drones and Air Traffic Control (ATC) rises concern for the implementation, especially dense aerial activities in urban areas. Therefore, the implementation of highly populated drone systems require a reliable communication network to maintain a real time information exchange. This paper investigates a model of reliable communication of multiple drones with the web-based ATC. Based on simulations of different use cases of multiple drones flying in urban setting, we demonstrated that the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a promising protocol for the communication of multiple drones within a network. In our simulations, four drones communicated over a single network with the limited hardware namely RaspberryPi combined with the ThingsBoard.

Pages: 13 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: November 14, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-918-8

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021