Engineering the Decentralized Coordination of UAVs with Limited Communication Range
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This paper tackles the problem of allowing a team of UAVs with limited communication range to autonomously coordinate to service requests. We present two MRF-based solutions: one assumes independence between requests; and the other considers also the UAVs’ workloads. Empirical evaluation shows that the latter performs almost as well as state-of-the-art centralized techniques in realistic scenarios.
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