FlyZone is a testbed architecture to experiment with aerial drone applications. Unlike most existing drone testbeds that focus on low-level mechanical control, FlyZone offers a high-level API and features geared towards experimenting with application-level functionality. These include the emulation of environment influences, such as wind, and the automatic monitoring of developer-provided safety constraints, for example, to mimic obstacles. We conceive novel solutions to achieve this functionality, including a hardware/- software architecture that maximizes decoupling from the main application and a custom visual localization technique expressly de-signed for testbed operation.
While we work on the public release of the software and hardware of FlyZone, you’re welcome to check out the relevant publications below!
Mikhail Afanasov, Alessandro Djordjevic, Feng Lui, and Luca Mottola. FlyZone: A Testbed for Experimenting with Aerial Drone Applications. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS), Seoul (South Korea), June 2019. Best Paper Candidate.
Mikhail Afanasov and Luca Mottola. The FlyZone Testbed Architecture for Aerial Drone Applications. In ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications. Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2020. Cover Page Feature.