Hybrid RFID-UAV frameworks for ubiquitous identification, sensing and mapping

Today, the idea to create interconnection among multiple devices for sharing information, is crucial. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm allows connections for acquiring information. Connections are made to improve the life quality and perception. Humans create even more infrastructures to reach this purpose, but they are not the only one. Many more humanoids and autonomous robots start to populate the everyday life. One of the more fascinating type is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), able to cross the sky as well as y in small indoor spaces. The practical implementation of many technologies to develop the IoT more pervasive as possible, crush to the cost problem. The Radio Frequency Identi cation Technology (RFID) e ciency answer to this problem. It is a low-cost miniaturizable technology able to be adaptable in many situation such as harsh environments, building, humans skin, clothes and many more. If UAVs and RFIDs technologies are merged together, a set of completely new opportunities and application elds are created. The Thesis addresses this interesting new idea by the developments of three di erent parts. The first one (Part I), is an introduction to the RFID and UAV worlds, together with the possible scenarios of application for the innovative hybrid solution. Than, the Thesis is partied in two innovative systems: the Reader-Drone (Part II) and the Tag-Copter (Part III). For each architecture, the electromagnetic models are developed to identify the upper-bound communication performance and some open-air empirical tests were performed to corroborate the theoretical analyses.