Continuation to the Rescue: Seamlessly Handling Battery Interruption in Drones

Adequately managing energy consumption is critical when defining a drone flight mission. A challenge when programming the drone is to make the drone behavior support battery replacements without disrupting its logic of execution. This paper explores the use of continuation, an ability of the programming language to capture a particular state of the application. Such a state can be reinstalled after a battery replacement to let the drone resume its execution. Our result indicates that a significant reduction of the engineering effort to handle energy consumption in a drone behavior may be achieved.