SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles

Jude Allred; Ahmad Bilal Hasan; Saroch Panichsakul; William Pisano; Peter Gray; Jyh Huang; Richard Han; Dale Lawrence; Kamran Mohseni

doi:10.1145/1322263.1322275

SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles

Jude Allred^*, Ahmad Bilal Hasan, Saroch Panichsakul, William Pisano, Peter Gray, Jyh Huang, Richard Han, Dale Lawrence, Kamran Mohseni

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Abstract

An airborne wireless sensor network (WSN) composed of bird-sized micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) enables low cost high granularity atmospheric sensing of toxic plume behavior and storm dynamics, and provides a unique threedimensional vantage for monitoring wildlife and ecological systems. This paper describes a complete implementation of our SensorFlock airborne WSN, spanning the development of our MAV airplane, its avionics, semi-autonomous flight control software, launch system, flock control algorithm, and wireless communication networking between MAVs. We present experimental results from flight tests of flocks of MAVs, and a characterization of wireless RF behavior in air-to-air communication as well as air-to-ground communication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	117-129
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9781595937636
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1322263.1322275
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys'07 - Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: 6 Nov 2007 → 9 Nov 2007

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Name	SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

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Conference	5th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys'07
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	6/11/07 → 9/11/07

Keywords

Applications
Deployments
MAVs
Wireless sensor networks

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Allred, J., Hasan, A. B., Panichsakul, S., Pisano, W., Gray, P., Huang, J., Han, R., Lawrence, D., & Mohseni, K. (2007). SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles. In SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (pp. 117-129). (SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/1322263.1322275

Allred, Jude ; Hasan, Ahmad Bilal ; Panichsakul, Saroch et al. / SensorFlock : an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles. SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2007. pp. 117-129 (SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems).

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Allred, J, Hasan, AB, Panichsakul, S, Pisano, W, Gray, P, Huang, J, Han, R, Lawrence, D & Mohseni, K 2007, SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles. in SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, NY, pp. 117-129, 5th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys'07, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 6/11/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1322263.1322275

SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles. / Allred, Jude; Hasan, Ahmad Bilal; Panichsakul, Saroch et al.
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