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Simulation tools, environments and frameworks for UAVs and multi-UAV-based systems performance analysis (version 2.0)

2022; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 43; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/02286203.2022.2092257

1925-7082

Aicha Idriss Hentati, Lamia Chaari Fourati, Essia Elgharbi, Sana Tayeb,

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

ABSTRACTDuring the last decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) gained wide attention and are integrated into diverse systems and deployed into many contexts. The need to assess the UAVs' performances, impacts of applications, routing protocols, mobility as well as other features in a network is necessary. However, conducting real experiments within UAV-based systems and particularly with multi-UAV-based systems can be extremely costly and complex. To fill this gap simulators, emulators, and frameworks are used to evaluate the performance and viability of UAV-based systems with lower cost and in a short period. Accordingly, researchers and software engineers developed several simulators and co-simulators dedicated to the performance evaluations of UAV-based systems. In this regard, this investigation highlights and identifies the most suitable simulators, co-simulators, emulators, and frameworks for UAV flights and management. Both the tools dedicated to mono-UAV-based systems and the tools dedicated to multi-UAV-based systems are pinpointed. In this paper, the goals, the requirements, the strengths, and the limitations of each studied tool are detailed. Besides that, a UAV simulators catalog is provided. It includes guidelines that will be useful for researchers and help them to identify and to select the adequate tools for UAVs performance analysis that meet their needs.KEYWORDS: Unnamed aerial vehiclessimulatorsco-simulatorsmulti-UAV-based systems AcknowledgmentsThis work is supported by the Tunisian program "Tunisian Federated Research Project" within the framework of the project Supervision Sensitive de lieux Sensibles multicapteurs: Super-Sens.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAicha Idriss HentatiAicha Idriss Hentati is a doctor in Computer Science. Her scope of research is communications related to UAV-based systems and collaborative networking with complex operations and high levels of independence. The main objective of her Ph.D. research project is the design and validation of a collaborative inter-UAVs system for autonomous tracking of intruders.Lamia Chaari FouratiLamia Chaari Fourati is a professor at Computer Science and Multimedia Higher Institute of Sfax (ISIMS), Tunisia. Her research activities are related to digital telecommunication networks, in particular wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, software defined networks, information centric networks, wireless body area networks, and UAV networks. She is the laureate for the Kwame Nkrumah Regional Awards for women 2016.Essia ElgharbiEssia Elgharbi is a master student in computer science at the Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax (ISIMS), Tunisia. She got her diploma in computer technologies specializing in embedded and mobile systems in 2020 from the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Bizerte (ISETB). The main objective of her master research project is the study and simulation of polar codes for mobile and wireless networks.Sana TayebSana Tayeb is a master student in computer science at the Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax (ISIMS), Tunisia. She got her diploma in information technologies in 2020 from ISIMS.