Project goal:

The goal of this project is to develop a system that will enable investigating the trade-offs between energy expenditure and operational lifetime in collaborative drone surveillance systems. The objective is to have a simulation-oriented solution which, in turn, will also be tested with a small fleet of drones. Specifically, this project will consider scenarios where an area that can be covered by a single drone, may still need another “extra” drone to complete the surveillance task. In such settings, we will investigate the overall operational lifetime of the fleet and enable planning of battery-swapping.