Self-Organising Drone Swarms for Detection and Monitoring of Wildfires
摘要
This chapter investigates the use of multiple unmanned platforms (a swarm) for environmental sensing. The use-case is that of wildfire detection and monitoring. The contribution of this chapter is theoretical in nature, the results are collected from simulations and numerical experiments. Specifically, the impact of varying communication ranges is explored with regard to the individual performances for the search- and the monitoring-task as well as the use of communication range as a control parameter for the trade-off between exploration and exploitation.