Reliable Optical Wireless Links within UAV Swarms

Author

Chlestil, Ch. ; Leitgeb, E. ; Schmitt, N.P. ; Muhammad, S. Sheikh ; Zettl, K. ; Rehm, W.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Broadband Commun., Graz Univ. of Technol.

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

42

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) flying in swarm formations carrying a variety of sensors for monitoring and surveillance is in fact a future application for both civil and military use. Different requirements of guidance and control of UAV were already identified; however, the communication facilities between mobile platforms and air-to-ground links are restricted to low bit rate radio based technology. In the near term data rates in the area of 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s will be needed to handle multiple sensor information in real-time and in parallel. Thus, UAV equipped with free space optics (FSO) will emerge as a challenging new needs for large data transfer in real time. With data rate capabilities of up to 2.5 Gbit/s the FSO surpass all possible microwave and RF solutions

Keywords

data communication; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical sensors; remote sensing; remotely operated vehicles; telecommunication network reliability; 0.1 to 1 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; air-to-ground links; civil application; communication facilities; data transfer; free space optics; low bit rate radio based technology; military application; mobile platforms; monitoring; multiple sensor information; optical wireless links; reliable optical links; sensors; surveillance; swarm formations; unmanned aerial vehicles; Communication system control; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Navigation; Optical sensors; Radio control; Space technology; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless sensor networks; Free Space Optics (FSO); Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV); link availability; networking architectures; optical wireless; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248491

Filename

4013851