Title :
A comprehensive software system architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles
Author :
Dong, Xiangxu ; Dong, Miaobo ; Wang, Biao ; Chen, Ben M. ; Lee, Tong H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We present in this paper a comprehensive software system architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles. More specifically, a top-down divide and conquer method is utilized in developing the logical representation of the overall system, with standard professional approaches, such as data flow diagram and task structure diagram. The overall system consisting of two unmanned vehicles and a ground control system is demonstrated with both hardware-in-the-loop simulation and practical formation flight tests. We should note that the same architecture can be adopted in other forms of unmanned systems including unmanned ground vehicles and underwater vehicles.
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aircraft control; control engineering computing; divide and conquer methods; remotely operated vehicles; software architecture; data flow diagram; ground control system; hardware-in-the-loop simulation; logical representation; practical formation flight test; software system architecture; task structure diagram; top-down divide and conquer method; unmanned aerial vehicle; Atmospheric modeling; Coordinate measuring machines; Data acquisition; Lead; Surveillance; Three dimensional displays; Vehicles; Unmanned aerial vehicles; flight experiment; flight software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations, Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0573-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2011.5986630
