2024 · WIPO

Intelligent Network for Beyond Line of Sight Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A patented network architecture in which an edge-computing orchestrator inside the Open RAN instantiates applications on demand to control autonomous vehicles beyond line of sight.

July 2024 · Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia, Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Matteo Bordin, Pietro Brach del Prever
2024 · IEEE VTC Spring 2024

Experimental Evaluation of the Performance of UAV-assisted Data Collection for Wake-up Radio-enabled Wireless Networks

Field and simulated experiments with a drone collecting data from wake-up-radio sensor nodes, showing that adaptive route planning beats a fixed path on every metric and that wake-up radios extend network lifetime by orders of magnitude over duty cycling.

June 2024 · Abhimanyu V. Sheshashayee, Matteo Bordin, Pietro Brach del Prever, Davide Villa, Hai Cheng, Chiara Petrioli, Tommaso Melodia, Stefano Basagni
2022 · Politecnico di Torino

Cellular Networks Support for Real-Time Control of UAVs

A feasibility study of controlling drones beyond visual range over commercial cellular networks, showing that the Colosseum hardware-in-the-loop emulator reproduces real-network behavior closely enough to serve as a testbed for new UAV features.

January 2022 · Pietro Brach del Prever