CORRIDRONE: Corridors for Drones, An Adaptive On-Demand Multi-Lane Design and Testbed
This work addresses the problem of safe and efficient drone integration into airspace for various commercial and security applications, offering an incremental solution for drone traffic management.
The paper proposes CORRIDRONE, a novel framework for on-demand, multi-lane virtual air corridors for safe point-to-point drone passage. This system is designed for various applications such as warehouse operations, package delivery, and border patrol, and includes features for efficient UAV integration into existing airspace.
In this article, a novel drone skyway framework called CORRIDRONE is proposed. As the name suggests, this represents virtual air corridors for point-to-point safe passage of multiple drones. The corridors are not permanent but can be set up on demand. A few such scenarios could be those in warehouse/factory floors, package delivery, shore-to-ship delivery, border patrol, etc. Several factors play major roles in the planning and design of such aerial passages. The proposed framework includes many novel features which aid safe and efficient integration of UAVs into the airspace with already available technologies. A several kilometres long test bed is proposed to be set-up at the 1500 acres Challekere campus of Indian Institute of Science, in the state of Karnataka, to design and test the infrastructure required for CORRIDRONE.