Energy Efficient Mobile Target Tracking Using Flying Drones

Zorbas, Dimitrios; Razafindralambo, Tahiry; Pugliese, Luigi Di Puglia; Guerriero, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.016

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“…First and foremost, drone offers to the user the power of invisible presence, that is, the ability to record and collect parts of physical reality from distance without being seen but through a "subjectless machine" [23]. Thereupon, if we consider that there is a behavioral problem in a person that stumbles on others or in objects, while messaging in a mobile phone, and if we conclude that there is something alarming when a person endangers his/her existence while chasing a nonexistent virtual creature, then to expect violations of privacy by drone civil use is a concomitant event since "drones are able to fly autonomously in different altitudes and they are usually equipped with sensors to monitor the environment and communication units to exchange data with other drones or central stations" [24]. The common element in those three cases is that they all appear as massive technological trends that pervade anthropologically in daily culture.…”

Section: Drone Robotics Uncontrolled Aviation and Virtue Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

Kabouridis¹

2017

Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age

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With the development of personalized and globalized technologies, a discussion regarding how and why virtue epistemology should be an essential part of post-industrial ethical analysis on augmented technologies and use of robotics in the global age becomes crucial. These globalized technologies in the form of either game apps (i.e., Pokémon Go) or robotics like drones become through the Internet multimedia a structural part of planetary digitalization. While this development takes place, traditional virtue epistemology responds insufficiently to the devitalization of knowledge regarding manners (savoir vivre) and ways (savoir faire) of practicing and the need to respond to the sudden expansion of augmented games and drone use with personal and social intellect, responsibility, and consequently safety. The chapter intends to discuss this analysis in order to argue that a postindustrial epistemic reconfiguration of digital ethics is necessary, since augmented reality games and robotics are taking the form of massive trends for adults and nonadults, while for the first time, digital gaming and robot entertainment exceed the limits of the personal space and the virtual mode of the screen, moving out into the public realm, where reality is mixed with virtuality and human environment with unmanned robots.

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Section: Drone Robotics Uncontrolled Aviation and Virtue Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

Kabouridis¹

2017

Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age

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“…The invention of light materials, low energy consumption machines, and high performance processing units led to the construction of flexible flying robots. They can be used in a variety of applications such as vehicle tracking, traffic management and fire detection [2,3]. Within the family of the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones, unmanned quadrotor helicopters [4] that base their operation in the appropriate control of four rotors have received a growing attention, mainly due to their capability to outperform most of other types of helicopters on the issues of maneuver ability, survivability, simplicity of mechanics, and increased payloads [5].…”

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Optimal Control Strategies for Load Carrying Drones

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et al. 2016

Advances in Delays and Dynamics

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This chapter studies control strategies for load carrying drones. Load carrying drones not only have to fly in a cooperative way, but also are mechanically interconnected. Due to these characteristics, the control problem is an interesting and challenging issue to deal with. Throughout this chapter, a dynamic model based on first principle is developed. To that end, it is proposed to model this system as a ball and beam system lifted by two drones. Afterwards, different control techniques are implemented and compared by simulations. Specifically, linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) and model predictive control (MPC) are studied. Both control techniques belong to the optimal control methodology. This comparison is interesting since LQR permits to perform an optimal control law with short execution times, while MPC deals with physical constraints and predictions, being the execution time and the physical constraints important issues to handle in this kind of systems. Finally, simulation results and open issues are discussed.

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“…A simplified version of the considered problem has been addressed by the same authors in [29], where it is assumed that an infinite number of UAVs is available and when an UAV moves to another position, it is replaced by another one. In [29], the objective is to minimize the total energy consumption.…”

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“…In [29], the objective is to minimize the total energy consumption. In this paper, we handle a more realistic aspect of the problem under study.…”

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Modelling the mobile target covering problem using flying drones

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This paper addresses the mobile targets covering problem by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is assumed that each UAV has a limited initial energy and the energy consumption is related to the UAV's altitude. Indeed, the higher the altitude, the larger the monitored area and the higher the energy consumption. When an UAV runs out of battery, it is replaced by a new one. The aim is to locate UAVs in order to cover the piece of plane in which the target moves by using a minimum number of UAVs. Each target has to be monitored for each instant time.The problem under consideration is mathematically represented by defining mixed integer non-linear optimization models. Heuristic procedures are defined and they are based on restricted mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation of the problem. A computational study is carried out to assess the behaviour of the proposed models and MIP-based heuristics. A comparison in terms of efficiency and effectiveness among models and heuristics is carried out.

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Energy Efficient Mobile Target Tracking Using Flying Drones

Cited by 83 publications

References 8 publications

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

Optimal Control Strategies for Load Carrying Drones

Modelling the mobile target covering problem using flying drones

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