On the Feasibility of Infrastructure Assistance to Autonomous UAV Systems
On the Feasibility of Infrastructure Assistance to Autonomous UAV Systems
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DOI：
10.1109/dcoss49796.2020.00054
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2019-07
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S. Baidya;M. Levorato
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作者：
S. Baidya;M. Levorato
基础设施援助已被提出作为一种可行的解决方案，以提高商用无人机（UAV）的能力，特别是实现完全自主操作。这些设备的机载性质施加了限制机载可用能量供应和计算能力的约束。周围的通信和计算基础设施的帮助可以通过扩展通信范围和接管计算密集型任务的执行来减轻这种限制。然而，自主操作对基础设施提出了特定的，在某些情况下相当极端的要求。针对飞行辅助和任务卸载到边缘服务器，本文深入评估了通信基础设施支持从无人机到基础设施的必要信息流的能力。这项研究是基于我们最近提出的FlyNetSim，一个开源的无人机网络模拟器，准确地模拟无人机和网络操作。
Infrastructure assistance has been proposed as a viable solution to improve the capabilities of commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), especially toward fully autonomous operations. The airborne nature of these devices imposes constrains limiting the onboard available energy supply and computing power. The assistance of the surrounding communication and computing infrastructure can mitigate such limitations by extending the communication range and taking over the execution of compute-intense tasks. However, autonomous operations impose specific, and rather extreme in some cases, demands to the infrastructure. Focusing on flight assistance and task offloading to edge servers, this paper presents an in-depth evaluation of the ability of the communication infrastructure to support the necessary flow of information from the UAV to the infrastructure. The study is based on our recently proposed FlyNetSim, an open-source UAV-network simulator accurately modeling both UAV and network operations.