Abstract
In recent years, there has been an increased demand in the use of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in indoor environments such as material handling task in a manufacturing environment and plant/environment monitoring task in a greenhouse. However, there is a lack of work reported on this topic. This paper presents a detailed study on several UAV systems and UAV scheduling systems. It is followed by a proposed system of UAV application in indoor environment, which comprises components of UAV system addressed in detail; focused on scheduler as the heart of operations. Consequently, system architecture of UAV scheduling system is presented and the framework of scheduler component is included. Scheduler component works in a phased manner to provide a systematic abstraction and achieve an efficient computation time. This study serves as a reference guide for UAV application in indoor environment.
Highlights
In manufacturing and production companies, various operations/tasks are gradually being automated – to be performed by robots instead of human labors
It is found that research in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in indoor environment is in the early stage
To achieve a smooth and efficient UAV operations in indoor environment, a robust UAV system is needed, especially a scheduler as the heart of UAV system
Summary
In manufacturing and production companies, various operations/tasks are gradually being automated – to be performed by robots instead of human labors. UAV can be used for performing material handling task in a manufacturing environment to feed materials to the production line. Together with this applicability, the employment of UAVs in indoor environment is supported. UAV operation system contains different types of UAVs (equipped with gripper, imaging device, and sensor), recharge centers and other resources which support UAV operation The contribution of this paper is in defining a UAV system with detailed configurations and constraints, which are required for a UAV application in indoor environment, accompanied by studies of related works.
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