Swarm Based Implementation of a Virtual Distributed Database System in a Sensor Network

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent military operations has received much media attention. Their success in carrying out surveillance and combat missions in sensitive areas has been trumpeted. An area of intense research has been on controlling a group of small-sized UAVs to carry out reconnaissance missions normally undertaken by large UAVs such as Predator or Global Hawk. A control strategy for coordinating the UAV movements of such a group of UAVs adopts the bio-i...