Aerial Robotic Team for Complex Monitoring in Precision Agriculture

Abstract

The paper presents an unmanned aerial system (UAS), based on multi-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) architecture, integrated in Internet, able to collect data from ground wireless sensor networks (WSNs), deployed on large areas for prevention agriculture. The contributions were focused on the way of mission planning and data collection: navigation algorithms, transfer of flight trajectory in UAS, storing trajectories to UAS ground part, and data transfer between WSN and UAV. The experimental results, focusing on communication performances, prove the real time data collection and high accuracy, both in simulation environment and real experiments on crop monitoring.