Bluetooth low energy mesh networks: Survey of communication and security protocols

MR Ghori, TC Wan, GC Sodhy - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Mesh Networks enable flexible and reliable communications
for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Most BLE-based mesh protocols are …

SARDO: An automated search-and-rescue drone-based solution for victims localization

A Albanese, V Sciancalepore… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters affect millions of people every year. Finding missing persons in the
shortest possible time is of crucial importance to reduce the death toll. This task is especially …

Scheduling of emergency tasks for multiservice UAVs in post-disaster scenarios

C Rottondi, F Malandrino, A Bianco, CF Chiasserini… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Single-task UAVs are increasingly being employed to carry out surveillance, parcel delivery,
communication support, and other specific tasks. When the geographical area of operation …

SwarmControl: An automated distributed control framework for self-optimizing drone networks

L Bertizzolo, S D'oro, L Ferranti, L Bonati… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), composed of hundreds, possibly thousands
of highly mobile and wirelessly connected flying drones will play a vital role in future Internet …

First responders got wings: UAVs to the rescue of localization operations in beyond 5G systems

A Albanese, V Sciancalepore… - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural and human-made disasters have dramatically increased in recent decades. Given
the strong relationship between first responders' localization time and the final number of …

The Cyber-Physical Control Room: A Mixed Reality Interface for Mobile Robot Teleoperation and Human-Robot Teaming

ME Walker, M Gramopadhye, B Ikeda, J Burns… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we present the design and evaluation of an immersive Cyber-Physical Control
Room interface for remote mobile robots that provides users with both robot-egocentric and …

UAV-assisted communication in remote disaster areas using imitation learning

A Shamsoshoara, F Afghah, E Blasch… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The damage to cellular towers during natural and man-made disasters can disturb the
communication services for cellular users. One solution to the problem is using unmanned …

What is a wireless UAV? A design blueprint for 6G flying wireless nodes

J Buczek, L Bertizzolo, S Basagni… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Wireless Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were introduced in the world of 4th generation
networks (4G) as cellular users, and have attracted the interest of the wireless community …

SkyCell: A prototy** platform for 5G aerial base stations

L Ferranti, L Bonati, S D'Oro… - 2020 IEEE 21st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we propose SkyCell, a prototy** platform for 5G autonomous aerial base
stations. While the majority of work on the topic focuses on theoretical and rarely …

OROS: Orchestrating ROS-driven collaborative connected robots in mission-critical operations

C Delgado, L Zanzi, X Li… - 2022 IEEE 23rd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Battery life for collaborative robotics scenarios is a key challenge limiting operational uses
and deployment in real life. Mission-Critical tasks are among the most relevant and …