788.11J Presentation“Sensor Flock”

Presented by Ahmed Saber

The Main Idea

• SensorFlock is a mobile system for networked

micro-air vehicles or in short MAVs.

• This system is used for atmospherics sensing of

toxic plume, storm dynamics.

• The paper talked about avionics, networking, the

design of the MAV, the software used for

autopilot, and the MAV launch system.

The Main Achievements

• What did this work accomplish?–The MAV is designed to achieve low energy consumption

with providing a better coverage of monitored field for a

relatively long period (about 90 minutes) that is sufficient

for used application

• What are the contributions?•This system gives a low cost solution for atmospheric sensing of

various atmosphere phenomena like storms, tornados, and

hurricanes.

The Challenges

• The design of the MAV had to be sufficiently

lightweight.

•Autopilot software design to provide semi-

autonomous flight

•Ability to make the propulsion, flight control, and

wireless networking work together into one

intergrated solution

Pictures

Figure 1: SensorFlock for 3-D sensing of toxic plumes.

Pictures

Figure 9: Multi-vehicle flocking. Vehicle are distributed with gradient field modifications.

Innovation

• The system incorporate a very disparate systems

together with excellent efficiency which are the

propulsion system, flight control, and WSN.

•Also the networking code was written to assure

quick interaction between MAVs in order to provide

more robust system in compact yet efficient way.