Real-time Coordination and Control of Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs: The COMETs Project

This video presents a control system that autonomously coordinates and supervises a fleet of heterogeneous UAVs to achieve complex observation missions. The system is composed of a central planning and monitoring station, and rely on a UAV decisional architecture that is designed to fit various levels of autonomy. The architecture and its adaptation to various kinds of UAVs is described, focusing on the role of the UAVs supervisors. A demonstration that illustrates a fire detection, confirmation and monitoring scenario, completed with a mapping task is shown. It involves three UAVs : two helicopters and a blimp, each of them being endowed with a supervisor linked to the central station. During the demonstration, the UAVs achieve various observation tasks coordinated thanks to their supervisor.