Bachelor and Master Theses

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Title: Development/evaluation of a framework for a multi-drone search and rescue mission
Subject: Computer science
Level: Basic, Advanced
Description: This thesis work seeks to exploit the usage of a small swarm of micro uav’s to accomplish a search and rescue mission. This work is challenging and includes the usage of state-of-the-art swarm architectures along with novel, emerging technologies in swarm control and autonomy and swarm mission accomplishment.

Looking at the research front, Robot Operating System (ROS) [2] seems to dominate for control of swarms. It is based on nodes and high- and low-level control of the entities where they are coordinated at a higher level and navigate at a lower level. At the bottom is a communication stack with MAVROS [5] and MAVLINK as protocol and communication standards. Furthermore, there are good simulation environments such as Gazebo [3] that support ROS. ROS nodes can then be implemented directly in existing control stack hardware such as PX4 [4], which is common in e.g. quadcopters.

1) Study and learn SOTA drone simulation frameworks and propose a suitable open source solution to be used.
2) Define a search and rescue mission with mission requirements. We will help you with this.
3) Implement and evaluate (simulate) the mission in the proposed framework.
4) Document and package SW and write a thesis report.

Only open source SW and no HW. But the step to an actual HW implementation should be relatively small.
Supervisor(s): to be decided
Examiner: Peter Funk, peter.funk@mdh.se
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Company contact: SAAB Aeronautics ella.olsson@saabgroup.com