A Platform for Autonomous Mission Control of Unmanned Airship
Constantino Gonçalves Ribeiro1; Júlio Cezar Mendes da Silva1; Max Suell Dutra2
1 CEFET-RJ; 2 Coppe-UFRJ
doi:10.20906/CPS/COB-2015-0752
Resumo
The applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are growing up and becoming part of many daily tasks in many organizations. But as matter of fact, the use of a UAV does not mean the decreasing of operational costs to perform its tasks. Some times this high costs are connected to the dependence of well-trained operators and expensive control facilities to operate a sophisticated UAVs. This paper proposes an UAV that can perform its tasks as much independent of human interaction as possible, and with a minimum connection to its mission control facilities. This independence will be achieved by embedding mission control into the UAV. As the mission control is embedded, the UAV will have less connections issues with its control center and will be less dependable of human interaction. To prove the concept a prototype of an embedded parallel-distributed computer, new procedures to resolve navigations and collision evasion procedures are proposed. The new evasion procedures were implemented into a simulator and a new parallel-distributed program for optimal path discover was developed to be used in cluster prototype. All evasion tests were satisfactory and speed up tests using the embedded cluster showed better performance of the proposed framework.
Palavras-chave: UAV; Blimp; navigation rules; embedded computer cluster; parallel distributed computer