Development of Mini Quadrotor Platform and Experiments on Outdoor Autonomous Swarming Flight

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a mini quadrotor platform and its experimental results on outdoor autonomous swarming flights. The platform is very light (less than 0.1 kg), so it is not subject to the aircraft registration requirements for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Despite this light weight, it integrates various sensors to perform autonomous flights in outdoor environments. To verify the feasibility of the developed platform, we performed autonomous swarming flights using 10 developed platforms, and the experimental results show that the mini quadrotor platform performs autonomous swarming flight with good precision and can be applied to actual outdoor flight environments.