Simulation of Cooperative Positioning Flight Ad-hoc Network

Abstract

Abstract Cooperative positioning method is necessary for multiple rotor-winged drone swarm applications for airborne satellite navigation receiver has less usability in urban canyon, which could be achieved by drones’ FANET (flight ad-hoc network): each drone broadcast and receive wireless signals containing measurement information with its neighbour drones, then calculate the relative position results or absolute results when some drone could positioning by satellite navigation receiver, to reduce the communication demand all drones distributed to multi-subnet dynamically. A simulation of the cooperative positioning process was shown, which achieves the continuous relative positioning result in denial environment.