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Roldán-Gómez J.j.Corresponding AuthorGarcia-Aunon P.AuthorMazariegos P.AuthorBarrientos A.Author

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July 25, 2020
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SwarmCity project: monitoring traffic, pedestrians, climate, and pollution with an aerial robotic swarm Data collection and fusion in a smart city, and its representation using virtual reality

Publicated to:Personal And Ubiquitous Computing. 26 (4): 1151-1167 - 2022-01-01 26(4), DOI: 10.1007/s00779-020-01379-2

Authors: Roldán-Gómez JJ; Garcia-Aunon P; Mazariegos P; Barrientos A

Affiliations

Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Comp Engn, Francisco Tomas y Valiente 11 - Author
Tech Univ Madrid, Ctr Automat & Robot UPM CSIC, Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2 - Author
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author

Abstract

© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Smart cities have emerged as a strategy to solve problems that current cities face, such as traffic, security, resource management, waste, and pollution. Most of the current approaches are based on deploying large numbers of sensors throughout the city and have some limitations to get relevant and updated data. In this paper, as an extension of our previous investigations, we propose a robotic swarm to collect the data of traffic, pedestrians, climate, and pollution. This data is sent to a base station, where it is treated to generate maps and presented in an immersive interface. To validate these developments, we use a virtual city called SwarmCity with models of traffic, pedestrians, climate, and pollution based on real data. The whole system has been tested with several subjects to assess whether the information collected by the drones, processed in the base station, and represented in the virtual reality interface is appropriate. Results show that the complete solution, i.e., fleet control, data fusion, and operator interface, allows monitoring the relevant variables in the simulated city.

Keywords

Data fusionDronesImmersive interfaceImmersive interfacesRobot swarmSmart citySwarm intelligenceSystemVehiclesVirtual reality

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Personal And Ubiquitous Computing due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Library and Information Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 4.11, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-09, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 6
  • Google Scholar: 18

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-09:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 60.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 71 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.75.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ROLDAN GOMEZ, JUAN JESUS) and Last Author (BARRIENTOS CRUZ, ANTONIO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been ROLDAN GOMEZ, JUAN JESUS.