BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing

Suryansh Sharma; Ashutosh Simha; Venkatesha Prasad; Shubham Deshmukh; Kavin Balaji Saravanan; Ravi Ramesh; Luca Mottola

doi:10.1145/3570361.3592498

BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing

Suryansh Sharma, Ashutosh Simha, Venkatesha Prasad, Shubham Deshmukh, Kavin Balaji Saravanan, Ravi Ramesh, Luca Mottola

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Abstract

UAVs are becoming versatile and valuable platforms for various applications. However, the main limitation is their flying time. We present BEAVIS, a novel aerial robotic platform striking an unparalleled trade-off between the maneuverability of drones and the long-lasting capacity of blimps. BEAVIS scores highly in applications where drones enjoy unconstrained mobility yet suffer from limited lifetime. A nonlinear flight controller exploiting novel, unexplored, aerodynamic phenomena to regulate the ambient pressure and enable all translational and yaw degrees of freedom is proposed without direct actuation in the vertical direction. BEAVIS has built-in rotor fault detection and tolerance. We explain the design and the necessary background in detail. We verify the dynamics of BEAVIS and demonstrate its distinct advantages, such as agility, over existing platforms including the degrees of freedom akin to a drone with 11.36 increased lifetime. We exemplify the potential of BEAVIS to become an invaluable platform for many applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	488-502
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9990-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592498
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	ACM MobiCom '23: The 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - Madrid, Spain Duration: 2 Oct 2023 → 6 Oct 2023 Conference number: 29th

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM
ISSN (Print)	1543-5679

Conference

Conference	ACM MobiCom '23
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	2/10/23 → 6/10/23

Keywords

UAV
drones
blimps
aerial robots
aerial sensing

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Sharma, S., Simha, A., Prasad, V., Deshmukh, S., Saravanan, K. B., Ramesh, R., & Mottola, L. (2023). BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. In ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 488-502). Article 33 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592498

Sharma, Suryansh ; Simha, Ashutosh ; Prasad, Venkatesha et al. / BEAVIS : Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. pp. 488-502 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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Sharma, S, Simha, A, Prasad, V, Deshmukh, S, Saravanan, KB, Ramesh, R & Mottola, L 2023, BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. in ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking., 33, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 488-502, ACM MobiCom '23, Madrid, Spain, 2/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592498

BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. / Sharma, Suryansh; Simha, Ashutosh; Prasad, Venkatesha et al.
ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 488-502 33 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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Sharma S, Simha A, Prasad V, Deshmukh S, Saravanan KB, Ramesh R et al. BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing. In ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2023. p. 488-502. 33. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). doi: 10.1145/3570361.3592498

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