Multi-drone control and network self-recovery for flying Ad Hoc Networks

Drones can play important roles in various applications, such as search and rescue, situation awareness in natural disasters, environmental monitoring, and perimeter surveillance. Using a group of small drones has many advantages compared with developing and operating one large drone. In this paper, we propose a multi-drone real-time control scheme based on the Flying Ad-Hoc Network (FANET) for controlling drones that fall outside the communication range of the ground control system. We also propose a fast recovery scheme with neighbor location information in highly dynamic networks. We verified the operation of the proposed schemes using a FANET test bed implementation.