AirSwarm: 市販ドローンで低コストなマルチUAV研究を実現
AirSwarm: Enabling Cost-Effective Multi-UAV Research with COTS drones
TelloやAnafiなどの安価な市販ドローンを使い、外部測位なしの視覚SLAMと階層制御でセンチメートル級の編隊飛行・軌道追従を可能にしたオープンソースの群制御フレームワーク。
著者: Xiaowei Li, Kuan Xu, Fen Liu, Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm missions rely heavily on expensive custom-made drones with onboard perception or external positioning systems, limiting their widespread adoption in research and education. To address this issue, we propose AirSwarm. AirSwarm democratizes multi-drone coordination using low-cost commercially available drones such as Tello or Anafi, enabling affordable swarm aerial robotics research and education. Key innovations include a hierarchical control architecture for reliable multi-UAV coordination, an infrastructure-free visual SLAM system for precise localization without external motion capture, and a ROS-based software framework for simplified swarm development. Experiments demonstrate cm-level tracking accuracy, low-latency control, communication failure resistance, formation flight, and trajectory tracking. By reducing financial and technical barriers, AirSwarm makes multi-robot education and research more accessible. The complete instructions and open source code will be available at
