# GNU Radio in Drones

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-in-drones/244107>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [February 21, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-in-drones/244107 "2016-02-21T21:29:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-in-drones/244107/1 "2016-02-21T21:29:56Z")

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Hello everyone:

I’m Jalil Modares, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and  
Computer Engineering at UB.  
We are working on an US Air Force funded project named UB-ANC, which is  
about Airborne Networks and Communications (ANC), and tries to boost the  
airborne network performance. It includes three custom built drones  
which are programmed to do autonomous, multi-agent tasks, like mapping  
and exploring. Each drone is equipped with an E310 USRP, and uses GNU  
Radio platform for communication, networking and signal processing.  
There is a technical report that describes the project in more detail,  
which can be found here:

> **[UB-ANC: An Open Platform Testbed for Software-Defined Airborne Networking and...](https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08346v2)**
>
> We present the University at Buffalo's Software-Defined Airborne Networking
> and Communications Testbed (UB-ANC). UB-ANC is an open software/hardware
> platform that aims to facilitate rapid testing and repeatable comparative
> evaluation of various...

The UB-ANC Emulator (which simulates the behavior of agents in the  
environment before any actual test), and UB-ANC Agent are open source  
and they also can be found here:  
[https://github.com/jmodares/UB-ANC-Emul](https://github.com/jmodares/UB-ANC-Emul)

> **[GitHub - jmodares/UB-ANC-Agent: The mission software template for UB-ANC Drone](https://github.com/jmodares/UB-ANC-Agent)**
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> The mission software template for UB-ANC Drone. Contribute to jmodares/UB-ANC-Agent development by creating an account on GitHub.

I hope it can help open source projects in Qt, GNU Radio and Drone  
communities.

Regards,  
Jalil