Poster: Testbed for Aerial Drone Applications.

We present FLYZONE, a practical testbed architecture to experiment with airborne mobile applications. FLYZONE provides developers with a high-level interface designed for seamless transition from the testbed to real deployments. We design a low-cost localization system for the testbed, and a flexible architecture to aid scalability when operating with multiple drones. We deploy our testbed in different settings to study its performance. Preliminary results show only 7.8cm localization error as compared to a motion capture-based systems that cost orders of magnitude more. Using modest hardware, FLYZONE maintains up to eight drones simultaneously without impacting the stability of control.