Vision-based Reconfigurable Drone Swarms for Fast Exploration – VORTEX
The VORTEX project proposes a new approach for exploring unknown indoor environments using a fleet of autonomous drones (UAVs). We propose to define a strategy based on swarm intelligence exploiting only vision-based behaviors. The fleet will deploy as a dynamic graph self reconfiguring according to events and discovered areas. Without requiring any mapping or wireless communication, the drones will coordinate by mutual perception and communicate by visual signs. This approach will be developed with RGB and event cameras to achieve fast and low-energy navigation. Performance, swarm properties, and robustness will be evaluated by building a demonstrator extending a quadrotor prototype developed in the consortium.
Project coordination
Olivier SIMONIN (CENTRE D'INNOVATION EN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ET INTEGRATION DE SERVICES)
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Partner
DTIS/S2AD Département Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
CITI CENTRE D'INNOVATION EN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ET INTEGRATION DE SERVICES
LS2N Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes
U2IS Unité d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie des Systèmes
LAB-STICC Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance
Help of the ANR 694,741 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
September 2023
- 48 Months
