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Review of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Swarm System Coordination and Communication

Authors : Chandra Has Singh, Vishal Mishra, Kamal Jain

Published in: Proceedings of UASG 2021: Wings 4 Sustainability

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this modern era, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have effectively changed and transformed the aeronautical industry in an effective way. A specific technique created to increase this disintegration is the UAV swarm system. The UAV swarm has the ability to deliver missions effectively and self-coordinate the operations of multiple UAVs with no remote operator intervening. This paper comprehensively surveys the literature about various UAV swarm functioning. It proposes a swarm architecture considering the high parameters that allow wireless radio communication infrastructure for a high degree of swarm system reliability and autonomy. This review paper chronicle did preliminary test development to carry out this proposed swarm wireless radio communication system architecture. UAV’s gradual integrated development of UAV swarms with UAV communications Autonomous self-coordination and organizing capability are central to advancing the utility of UAV swarm systems. Several limiting factors hamper the usability of UAVs and reduce performance, including communication, various networking challenges, size-load, and proper power considerations. In addition, the wireless radio system takes advantage of a highly reliable and robust infrastructure for wireless radio communications with secure one machine to another machine.

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Metadata
Title
Review of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Swarm System Coordination and Communication
Authors
Chandra Has Singh
Vishal Mishra
Kamal Jain
Copyright Year
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19309-5_32