A multiplatform on-board processing system for miniature unmanned vehicles

Author

Garcia, R.D. ; Valavanis, K.P. ; Kontitsis, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of CSE, CRASAR, Tampa, FL

fYear

2006

fDate

15-19 May 2006

Firstpage

2156

Lastpage

2163

Abstract

This paper presents a low cost, high powered onboard processing system for miniature unmanned vehicles (UVs), especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Such vehicles have shown great potential due to their compact size, high maneuverability and high payload-to-size ratio. The proposed on-board processing system differs from other existing designs by utilizing developed commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware and a full, nongraphical, operating system (OS). The hardware allows for quick development and deployment of the on-board processing system as well as easy integration with new hardware. The full OS allows for simplified software development and testing as well as the use of commercial and open source software. The physical configuration of the system, necessary drivers, and field tests on both aerial and ground vehicles are presented

Keywords

aircraft; control engineering computing; microrobots; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; telerobotics; commercial off the shelf hardware; miniature unmanned vehicles; multiplatform onboard processing system; software development; unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned ground vehicles; Costs; Hardware; Land vehicles; Open source software; Operating systems; Programming; Road vehicles; Software testing; System testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9505-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642023

Filename

1642023