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We are currently conducting research activities related to communication issues of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (i.e., Drones), such as Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and MAV swarms. Examples include MAV planification issues related to MAVs with navigation system without relying on GPS-like techniques and adversarial MAV activities. Research is conducted using numeric and network simulations, as well as testbed and lab facilities to explore the complexity and impact of each of those communication models in terms of swarm intelligence. Current results include the use of smart landmarks to provide quality amplification and error reduction, as well as the use of fuzzy systems and Generative Adversarial Networks. Our work explores the complexity and impact of novel solutions in terms of increasing swarm intelligence.

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  1. M. Barbeau, J. Garcia-Alfaro, E. Kranakis. "Geocaching-inspired Navigation for Micro Aerial Vehicles with Fallible Place Recognition", 19th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now 2020), Bari, Italy, October 2020.
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  2. M. Barbeau, J. Garcia-Alfaro. "Faking and Discriminating the Navigation Data of a Micro Aerial Vehicle Using Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology 2019 (5th QCIT workshop of the Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology), December 2019.
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  3. M. Barbeau, J. Garcia-Alfaro, E. Kranakis, F. Santos. "Quality Amplification of Error Prone Navigation for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles", IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on Computing-Centric Drone Networks 2019 (CCDN 2019), December 2019.
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  4. M. Barbeau, J. Garcia-Alfaro, E. Kranakis. "Geocaching-inspired Resilient Path Planning for Drone Swarms". IEEE MiSARN 2019, Joint 7th International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor and Cyber-Physical System Networking (MiSeNet) and 12th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks (WiSARN), co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2019 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, April-May 2019, Paris, France.
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