The SensorFly is a novel low-cost controlled-mobile aerial sensor networking platform. A flock of these 29g autonomous helicopter nodes with communication, ranging and collaborative path determination capabilities, can be useful in sensing survivors after disasters or adversaries in urban combat scenarios.
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Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, Frank Mokaya, and Pei Zhang. SensorFly: Controlled-mobile Sensing Platform for Indoor Emergency Response Applications. In the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, and Pei Zhang. “SugarMap: Location-less Coverage for Micro-Aerial Sensing Swarms.” In the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Philadelphia, PA, April 2013.
Aveek Purohit and Pei Zhang. “Controlled-Mobile Sensing Simulator for Indoor Fire Monitoring”. In the First IEEE Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'11), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
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SensorFly: Controlled-mobile Aerial Sensing Platform