AUTONOMOUS AERIAL IMAGING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING OF A DATACENTER

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for autonomous aerial imaging and environmental sensing of a datacenter. In one aspect a method includes executing, within a datacenter and by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in data communication with a server, a connectivity-enabled navigation process to collect data from the datacenter; determining, during execution of the connectivity-enabled navigation process and by the UAV, that connection to the server is lost so that the connectivity-enabled navigation process cannot be continued; and in response to determining that connection to the server is lost, executing, by the UAV, an autonomous navigation process until the connection to the server is recovered, wherein the autonomous navigation process navigates the datacenter using visual tags positioned in the datacenter.