@InProceedings{Quaritsch2008, author = {Quaritsch, Markus and Stojanovski, Emil and Bettstetter, Christian and Friedrich, Gerhard and Hellwagner, Hermann and Rinner, Bernhard and Hofbaur, Michael and Shah, Mubarak}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems}, title = {Collaborative Microdrones: Applications and Research Challenges}, year = {2008}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, editor = {ACM,}, month = jul, pages = {7}, publisher = {ACM Press}, abstract = {Microdrones are small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying payloads such as cameras and sensors. Such microdrones enable us to obtain a bird's eye view of the environment which is helpful in many applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance or disaster management. This position paper reports on our recently launched project \collaborative microdrones" where we are developing a system for aerial imaging based on cooperating, wireless networked microdrones that can be used in disaster management applications. Several microdrones will y in formation over the area of interest and deliver sensor data which is fused, analyzed and delivered to the user in real-time. In this paper we brie y discuss applications for UAVs, present related projects, introduce our research focus and report on preliminary results.}, keywords = {microdrones, networked autonomous systems, mission planning, aerial imaging, formation flight}, language = {EN}, pdf = {https://www.itec.aau.at/bib/files/Collaborative Microdrones.pdf}, talktype = {none}, url = {http://www.pervasive.uni-klu.ac.at/publications/pdf/Quaritsch_Autonomics2008.pdf} }