Title
An Arduino-based subsystem for controlling UAVs through GSM
Abstract
Long distance and beyond sight of view communication between a ground control station and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is mainly achieved using high-gain antennas, antenna trackers or satellites. These implementations demand expensive, heavy and not easily deployed equipment, while in many cases cannot provide a sufficient communication range. The current work proposes and demonstrates a lightweight and low-cost Arduino-based telecommunication subsystem that is capable of sending control commands to the UAV based on GSM or GPRS the most widely deployed cellular networks standard. During field trials control commands successfully transferred from a mobile phone as well as a laptop to the UAV autopilot, with an average time of 2.6 sec and 0.5 sec respectively. The proposed subsystem can be embedded independently or coexist with other control systems, contributing to a ubiquitous UAVs management system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MOCAST.2017.7937656
2017 6th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Arduino,GSM network,long distance communications,UAV
GSM,Ground control station,Arduino,Real-time computing,Cellular network,Autopilot,Mobile phone,Control system,Engineering,General Packet Radio Service,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-4387-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
7