A simulator for UAVs management in agriculture domain

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) receive a growing interest for agricultural purposes. The aim is to provide inspiring insights in this domain from a technological and computational point of view. In these last years, indeed, there is an enormous potential that UAV technologies presents to support the agricultural domain in monitoring the land for checking and countering the presence of parasites that can damage the crop. However, to properly manage a UAVs team, equipped with multiple sensors and actuators, it is necessary to test these technologies and design proper strategies and coordination techniques able to efficiently manage the team. At this purpose, the paper proposes a simulator suitable for the agriculture domain in order to design novel coordination and control techniques of a UAVs team. Moreover it is possible to define the main variables and parameters of this domain of interest. The work presented many coordination techniques both for monitoring the area and both for coordinating the actions of the drones in the presence of parasites in order to analyze how the performance can significantly change if more constraints, such as energy, communication range, resource capacities, are accounted.