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Yukito Onodera
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2020
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Informatics Engineering
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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.
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