A Ground Control Station for a Multi-UAV Surveillance System

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsPublished 24 August 2012

D. H. Cámpora Pérez, Iván Maza, Fernando Caballero, David Scarlatti, E. Casado, Anı́bal Ollero

DOI10.1007/s10846-012-9759-5

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TL;DR

The ground control station developed for a platform composed by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance missions is designed as a robust and decentralized system that allows the operator to dynamically allocate different tasks to the UAVs and to show their operational information in a 3D realistic environment in real time.

Abstract

This paper presents the ground control station developed for a platform composed by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance missions. The software application is fully based on open source libraries and it has been designed as a robust and decentralized system. It allows the operator to dynamically allocate different tasks to the UAVs and to show their operational information in a 3D realistic environment in real time. The ground control station has been designed to assist the operator in the challenging task of managing a system with multiple UAVs, trying to reduce his workload. The multi-UAV surveillance system has been demonstrated in field experiments using two quadrotors equipped with visual cameras.

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