DroNet 2015 - 1st Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications

Micro or nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as drones, are unmanned aerial vehi- cles of various forms, such as small quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various mission-oriented civilian appli- cations. Recent popular applications employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and products (e.g., Amazon has recently advertised their new drone delivery system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers, GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely on fleets of MAVs that need to coordinate their activities.
DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of micro aerial vehicles, theoreti- cal studies, algorithm and protocol design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented contri- butions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or advance- ments, measurements, or innovative applications. The program seeks original and unpublished work not currently under review by another technical journal/magazine/conference, but welcomes interdisciplinary teams to present robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or requirements to the audience.