Wireless Sensors & Drones in IoT (Wi-DroIT 2021)

3rd International Workshop on

Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT) 2021

Virtual Event

July 16, 2021

co-located with DCOSS 2021

Submission link: click here

Scope

Due to the evolution of the health pandemic, the event will be held fully on-line. This will not impact the publication of the DCOSS 2021 proceedings and accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Proceedings. The virtual program will include live sessions of invited speakers and author presentations, possibly supplemented by online material such as the papers, presentation slides and videos.

Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications, UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Moreover, single or multiple UAVs can cooperatively collaborate providing services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints should be accounted for.

For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach, involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image and sound processing.

Topics of Interest

Autonomous sensing via UAVs
Topology monitoring with UAVs
Remote sensing networks via UAVs
Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT
Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT
Precision agriculture and UAVs
Crops monitoring in agriculture
Bugs monitoring in agriculture
UAVs for environmental monitoring
Autopilot and UAS autonomy
UAVs path planning and scheduling
Parcel delivery using UAVs
Cellular networks and UAVs
Constrained and multi-objectives problems
Sensors localization with UAVs
UAVs tracking techniques
Cooperative control of multiple UAVs
Cyber-security communications and UAVs
Optimal UAV deployment strategies
Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs
Single UAV applications
Multi-UAV applications
Energy-efficient UAV communications
Machine learning for UAV communications

Important dates

Abstract Submission: May 28, 2021
Paper Submission: May 28, 2021 (firm)
Acceptance Notification: June 11, 2021
Camera Ready: June 18, 2021
Early Registration: July 5, 2021
Workshop Day: July 16, 2021

Author information

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to WiDroIt topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 x 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Note that Wi-DroIT does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript.

Program

9:00 – 9:15 Opening
9:15 – 10:00 Keynote: “Using L-Band Satellite Communication for LALE type UAV Command and Control”, Gokhan Celik, CEO of A-techSYN Ltd.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 First session: “Path Planning and Routing”
10:30 – 11:00 “Travel Path Planning for UAV as a Data Collector for a Sparse WSN”, Pejman Karegar and Adnan Al-Anbuky
11:00 – 11:30 “Trajectory-based Traveling Salesman Problem for Multirotor UAVs”, Fabian Meyer and Katharina Glock
11:30 – 12:00 “Routing Drones Being Aware of Wind Conditions: a Case Study”, Lorenzo Palazzetti
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 15:00 Second session: “Intelligent Systems”
13:00 – 13:30 “Towards Secure Wireless Mesh Networks for UAV Swarm Connectivity: Current Threats, Research, and Opportunities”, Martin Andreoni Lopez, Michael Baddeley, Willian Tessaro Lunardi, Anshul Pandey and Jean-Pierre Giacalone
13:30 – 14:00 “Improving the Generalization Capability of DNNs for Ultra-low Power Autonomous Nano-UAVs”, Elia Cereda, Marco Ferri, Dario Mantegazza, Nicky Zimmerman, Luca M. Gambardella, Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti and Daniele Palossi
14:00 – 14:30 “A Reverse Turing Like Test for Quad-copters”, Ahmad Traboulsi and Michel Barbeau
14:30 – 15:00 “Addressing Greenhouse’s Lack of Natural Pollinators - A UAV-Based Artificial Pollination System”, Nansong Wu, William Cowles and Alex Kudelin
15:00 – 15:15 Closing

Note: All times are CEST

Committees

Workshop Chairs

Francesco Betti Sorbelli: University of Perugia, Italy
Dimitrios Zorbas: Nazarbayev University, Computer Science Department, Kazakhstan

Steering Committee

Enrico Natalizio: University of Loraine, France
Cristina M. Pinotti: University of Perugia, Italy

Program Committee

Farshad Ghanei: University of Buffalo, USA
Tathagata Mukherjee: University of Alabama, USA
Vijay Shah: Virginia Tech, USA
Federico Corò: Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Ajay Pratap: IIT-BHU, India
Angelo Trotta: University of Bologna, Italy
Lars Wolf: TU Baunschweig, Germany
Atieh R. Khamesi: University of Kentucky, USA
Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou: University of New Mexico, USA
Daniele Palossi: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Anil Shende: Roanoke College, USA
Satyaki Roy: University of North Carolina, USA
Nicola Roberto Zema: University of Paris-Saclay, France
Shameek Bhattacharjee: Western Michigan University, USA
Nirnay Ghosh: IIEST, India
Paolo Barsocchi: ISTI - CNR, Italy
Stefano Carpin: UC Merced, USA

Wireless Sensors & Drones in IoT (Wi-DroIT 2021)