Title
Couas: A Cooperative Uav Fleet Control And Monitoring Platform
Abstract
In the past decade, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) have been widely used in various civilian applications, most of which only contain a single unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In the near future, the cooperation of multiple UAVs is expected to play more and more important role in emerging applications. However, existing UAV control platforms are lack of good support for cooperative tasks. For example, they control multiple UAVs in a leader-follower model instead of in a more cooperative way. As a result, research teams have to build their own platforms manually from sketch to implement a specific multi-UAV application. In this paper, to facilitate the development of multi-UAV applications, we propose a general control and monitoring platform for cooperative UAV fleet, namely, CoUAS, which provides a set of cooperative services including synchronization, connectivity management, energy simulation, etc. To evaluate the proposed platform, we then implement a prototype and run a designed path planning algorithm on it. Results from both simulation and field test indicate that the proposed system is viable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/GCWkshps45667.2019.9024481
2019 IEEE GLOBECOM WORKSHOPS (GC WKSHPS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
UAV fleet, Cooperation, Connectivity, Path planning, Simulation, Testbed, Open-source
Conference
2166-0069
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziyao Huang100.68
Weiwei Wu2219.53
Feng Shan300.34
Yuxin Bian400.68
Zhengjiang Li501.01
Jianping Wang61422103.90
Jin Wang710926.32