An Efficient Swarm Control Algorithm for Covering an Area With Communication Network

Abstract

There is an increase in popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that can fly in autonomous swarms. Many applications, such as surveillance, disaster response or enabling of wireless access networks can be found for such drones. In this work an efficient swarm control algorithm for establishing a WiFi network over a specified area in emergency situations was prepared and tested in a developed swarm simulator. The test results show that the area can be effectively and fully covered by the drone formations, without in-flight collisions, and keeping the necessary distances between the drones.