Tag: UAV

Successful drone test flights for 6G-SKY

Group picture at test flights

The research project 6G-SKY has reached a major milestone: Lakeside Labs and the company Twins have successfully conducted a series of flight tests using an integrated drone platform at the Logistics Center Austria South. Aerial image analysis via wireless connectivity The main goal of these flights was to evaluate the performance of three interconnected drones in an image analysis scenario. The drones were equipped with optical sensors and wireless communication…

Futurezone award for most innovative 5G project

Lakeside Labs won the futurezone award in the category 5G innovation of the year for its work on communication in swarms. The award was presented by Huawei at an award ceremony in Vienna. The runner ups for the award were the University of Klagenfurt with a virtual realities use case and the TU Vienna with a smart 5G machine vice. The use case “Communications in Swarms” is being developed at…

Mini workshop on networked systems

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Session A: Drone networks (09:00 to 10:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Samira Hayat: Experimental evaluation of wireless communications for drones Aymen Fakhreddine: Cellular-connected drone systems: State-of-the-art and research issues Raheeb Muzaffar: Live multicast video streaming from drones Session B: Industrial, robot, and post-disaster networks (11:00 – 12:40, 1 hour talks + discussions) Jorge Schmidt: UWB sensor networks Agata Gniewek: Swarmalatorbots — Robots that sync and…

A year in the life of Lakeside Labs

By Christian Bettstetter, Scientific Director Did you observe that lately more and more tech products and business processes have features of self-organization? Almost every major car maker has been testing self-driving vehicles and is now introducing them to the market. The industry is crazy about “industry 4.0”—which promises self-organizing production with humans, machines, and products collaborating to make decentralized decisions. These are just two examples for the ongoing trend toward…

Communication demands of drone applications

Small drones become increasingly popular for civil applications, including production of movies and delivery of important goods. The wireless communications and networking of drones is an essential building block in such systems. Lakeside Labs researchers have been working in this domain for several years; now they wrote a comprehensive survey article on the characteristics and requirements of drone networks. Evsen Yanmaz, senior researcher and project manager, states: “Our survey quantifies…

Job selection in UAV-based delivery services

Aerial delivery services using small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed by major online retailers, logistics companies, and startups. An interdisciplinary project team at the University of Klagenfurt aims at contributing to the architectural setup and distributed control of such future systems. Small UAVs have found their way to civil applications. A broad variety of UAV models has been developed and commercialized in the past few years and is…