Toward UAV-Based Airborne Computing
Toward UAV-Based Airborne Computing
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DOI：
10.1109/mwc.2019.1900025
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发表时间：
2019-08
影响因子：
12.9
通讯作者：
K. Lu;Junfei Xie;Yan Wan;Shengli Fu
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作者：
K. Lu;Junfei Xie;Yan Wan;Shengli Fu
近年来，我们见证了人们对使用无人机促进民用和商业应用的兴趣的显著增长。为了设计未来的无人机系统和应用，先进的无人机功能需要强大的星载计算能力。然而，现有的大多数无人机功能都是单独设计的，缺乏一个通用框架来利用机载计算来实现所有的机载无人机功能。在这篇文章中，我们提出了一个全面的研究来解决这个问题，目标是以统一的方式采用基于无人机的机载计算。具体地说，我们首先从两个角度概括了采用机载计算的动机：增强无人机功能和支持新的无人机应用。然后讨论了如何设计和实现未来的无人机机载计算，其中我们提出了一些设计准则，然后提出了一个由使命层、任务层和功能层组成的三层参考模型，以简化未来无人机应用的分析和设计。为了支持未来无人机应用的多样化设计需求，我们介绍了我们最近在开发开放式网络化机载计算平台方面的工作，并用实验结果展示了我们的最新原型，证实了我们的机载计算平台的可行性。
In recent years, we have witnessed the significant growth of interest in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to facilitate civilian and commercial applications. To design future UAV systems and applications, advanced UAV functions require powerful on-board computing capability. Nevertheless, most existing UAV functions were designed separately and there is a lack of a general framework to exploit airborne computing for all on-board UAV functions. In this article, we present a comprehensive study to address this issue with the goal to adopt UAV-based airborne computing in a unified way. Specifically, we first generalize the motivations to adopt airborne computing from two perspectives: enhancing UAV functions and enabling new UAV applications. We then discuss how to design and implement future UAV-based airborne computing, in which we present some design guidelines and then propose a three-layer reference model that consists of the mission, task, and function layers so as to simplify the analysis and design of future UAV applications. To support the diverse design requirements for future UAV applications, we introduce our recent work on the development of an open networked airborne computing platform, and we demonstrate our latest prototype with experimental results that confirm the viability of our airborne computing platform.