Using Augmented Reality and Drones in Tandem to Serve Smart Cities

Abstract

Augmented Reality Technologies as such have been known since the first decade of the 21st century. However, due to the relatively high costs of terminal equipment, the lack of mass demand in industries, their unpreparedness to implement augmented reality in production processes, the limited use of augmented reality in the educational process, etc., this technology did not become networked. In the broadest sense of this word, the traffic generated by augmented reality significantly affects both the principles of network construction and its planning. The article is devoted to studying the interaction of augmented reality applications and control methods for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The study was carried out experimentally using the developed experimental stand. During the experiment, an augmented reality application was used to control the UAV. The assessments of the quality of service of the network and subjective evaluations of the quality of perception were obtained. The Hurst parameter was used to determine the relationship between the quality of communication network service and the quality of perception. The parameters of the communication network maintenance are determined to ensure the specified rate of perception when controlling the UAV using the augmented reality application.

A Review of Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Key Characteristics, Applications, and Wireless Technologies

“…The different types of UAVs employed in various FANET scenarios can be classified based on such different factors as UAV size, weight, range, endurance, altitude, application, flying mechanism, ownership, airspace class, level of control (autonomy), and type of engine [4]. Recently, several studies have shown the importance of FANETs by investigating the integration of FANETs of UAVs with different technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), [5][6][7][8][9], IoT [10][11][12], flying edge computing [13], flying fog computing [10,14,15], cellular networks [16][17][18][19], and flying cloud computing [20]. Although such integration brings many advantages, many issues may arise as well, ranging from UAV deployment issues to regulations on using these devices.…”

“…In this regard, UAVs that can freely fly in the sky are excellent tools for collecting 3D data. Several studies have investigated the use of VR technology and UAV networks [5][6][7][8][9]. The main challenges of UAV-enabled VR include the low battery lifetime and computing capacity of VR users, which in turn cause issues with content caching and transmission.…”