Drone swarms have shown to be useful for multiple applications including search and rescue missions, environmental monitoring, and entertainment purposes. The objective of this work is to develop control algorithms, set up localization and communication systems, and writing code to enable to flight of many quadrotor drones at once. Over the summer, we set up a communication bridge between MATLAB and the Python swarming platform. This allows us to perform calculations and generate Bernstein polynomial trajectories in MATLAB and send those to the drones through ROS. We are currently expanding to new lab with a much larger flight space. With this new space, we plan to increase our swarm size to over 200 drones and potentially more in the future.
Cristian Sanchez – University of Iowa
Student: Cristian Sanchez, Undergraduate Student in Implementation of Drone Swarming for Cooperative Autonomous Missions, University of Iowa
Research Mentor: Venanzio Cichella
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2023-2024, Undergraduate