Year : 2024 | Volume :01 | Issue : 01 | Page : –

Dr. Angshuman Chakraborty,

Dr. Trupa Sarkar,

Associate Professor Tripura Institute of Technology, Narsingarh Tripura India
Assistant Professor Tripura Institute of Technology, Narsingarh Tripura India

Abstract

The review of multi-agent systems, including drone swarms, has gained momentum due to their ability to exhibit cooperative behavior. Automating the control of a drone swarm poses substantial challenges due to the diverse wireless, networking, and environmental constraints each drone faces. To address these challenges, we treat drone swarms as Networked Control Systems (NCS), integrating the overall system control within a wireless communication network. This approach relies on a strong interconnection between networking and computational systems to effectively support crucial control functions, including data collection and exchange, decision-making, and the distribution of actuation commands.
Our literature review indicates a scarcity of review papers focusing on the design of drone swarms as Networked Control Systems (NCS). In this review, we provide an extensive overview of the development of self-organized drone swarms as Networked Control Systems (NCS) through the integration of networking and computational systems. We detail the characteristics of these proposed components with respect to their networking and computational features and assess their integration to improve drone swarm performance. Furthermore, we propose a possible design approach and identify several open research challenges associated with the integration of networking and computing in drone swarms as Networked Control Systems (NCS).

Keywords: Drone swarms; Networked control systems; Wireless networks; In-network computing, Unmanned aerial vehicle

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