Achieving a High-bandwidth, Long-range, Reliable Data Link to... - Derick Mathews & Ishan Duriseti

Achieving a High-bandwidth, Long-range, Reliable Data Link to Airborne Systems - Derick Mathews & Ishan Duriseti, AmadorUAVs
Speakers: Ishan Duriseti, Derick Mathews
The AmadorUAVs team presents its experience building high bandwidth wireless links to enable high-fidelity live image/video streaming from drones. Live data streams of images, videos, and other high-bandwidth media require reliable connections over long ranges at speeds not achievable using traditional telemetry radio setups. To solve this problem, the team developed a WiFi-based streaming system used to stream school events, complete robotic competition mission objectives, and transmit vision data to a ground station for further processing. The system consists of an omnidirectional antenna on the drone and a directional antenna on the ground, which is directed at the drone using a custom-developed two-axis antenna tracking mechanism.