An autonomous aerial vehicle for unmanned security and surveillance operations: design and test

Author

Belloni, G. ; Feroli, M. ; Ficola, A. ; Pagnottelli, S. ; Valigi, P.

Author_Institution

Polo Sci. Didattico di Terni Univ. of Perugia, Perugia

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an electrically powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with wingspan of 2.5 m. A flight control system is constructed using small and light-weight components. The logical interconnection and schematic layout of the AFC (Automatic Flight Control) are presented. The UAV prototype has been successfully tested carrying a high resolution camera, and was able to acquire the images and the video of the fly zone and transmit them back to the ground station.

Keywords

aerospace control; aerospace robotics; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; robot vision; surveillance; autonomous aerial vehicle; electrically powered unmanned aerial vehicle; flight control system; high resolution camera; image acquisition; logical interconnection; schematic layout; surveillance operations; unmanned security operations; video acquisition; Aerospace control; Automatic frequency control; Mobile robots; Power system interconnection; Power system security; Prototypes; Remotely operated vehicles; Surveillance; Testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2007. SSRR 2007. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1569-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1569-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSRR.2007.4381277

Filename

4381277