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The Future of Energy-Aware Software: The Case of Drones

Posted August 1, 2015 | Leadership | Technology | Amplify

It seems that drones are all the talk these days. Drones are useful in climate science, space research, energy and environmental research, and surveillance to protect sensitive areas, and they show great potential for growth in technology and applications. Drone technology depends mainly on many branches of engineering, including but not limited to robotics, computer technology, avionics, air and space research, mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and others.1 When energy prices rise and the autonomy requirements increase, managing the power demand of computing devices becomes a major concern.

About The Author
Luis Corral
Luis Corral holds a PhD in computer science from the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. He has more than eight years of industrial experience serving as Software Quality Engineer at General Electric Aviation, and he has held academic positions as Lecturer and Researcher at the Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico) and the Free University of Bolzano. Dr. Corral's areas of interest are software quality assurance, computational thinking,… Read More
Ilenia Fronza
Ilenia Fronza holds a PhD in computer science from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and is currently a nontenured researcher in its Faculty of Computer Science, where she teaches the Software Engineering and Software Project course. Her research interests focus on empirical software engineering, machine learning and data mining, software process visualization and improvement, and agile methodologies. Dr. Fronza has been a program… Read More
Nabil El Ioini
Nabil El Ioini received a master's degree in computer science in 2009 from the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, where he is currently a PhD candidate. His research interests include: software security and software testing, with a focus on cloud security and quality of service; embedded systems; software testing; and security teaching as part of computational thinking skills. He can be reached at nelioini at unibz.it.
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