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Drone Positioning for Visible Light Communication with Drone-Mounted LED and Camera
The world is often stricken by catastrophic disasters. On-demand
drone-mounted visible light communication (VLC) networks are suitable for
monitoring disaster-stricken areas for leveraging disaster-response operations.
The concept of an image sensor-based VLC has also attracted attention in the
recent past for establishing stable links using unstably moving drones.
However, existing works did not sufficiently consider the one-to-many image
sensor-based VLC system. Thus, this paper proposes the concept of a one-to-many
image sensor-based VLC between a camera and multiple drone-mounted LED lights
with a drone-positioning algorithm to avoid interference among VLC links.
Multiple drones are deployed on-demand in a disaster-stricken area to monitor
the ground and continuously send image data to a camera with image sensor-based
visible light communication (VLC) links. The proposed idea is demonstrated with
the proof-of-concept (PoC) implemented with drones that are equipped with LED
panels and a 4K camera. As a result, we confirmed the feasibility of the
proposed system