VLDL: Localization of Drones Using Visible Light Communication

Drones are being used in a wide range of applications. They use Global Positioning System (GPS) for localization and navigation. However, there are specific scenarios where GPS cannot be used in an indoor environment, tunnels, remote areas, defence, and military applications. In this paper, we propose a system VLDL (Visible Light-based Drone Localization) for the localization and navigation of drones using Visible Light Communication (VLC). We test the prototype of this system in an indoor environment using the existing LED infrastructure as the transmitter nodes and the camera placed on the drone as the receiver. We evaluate the performance of our system by measuring the localization accuracy of the system