Project of a hardware and software architecture for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Author

Maranhão, Djalma ; Alsina, Pablo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Autom., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

fYear

2009

fDate

29-30 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes a simple hardware/software architecture for a micro UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). This architecture follows the master-slave model and uses the Standard USB as communication interface. The main contribution of this paper is a C++ library, which makes possible communicate an embedded PC with several microcontrollers. Through this interface, it is possible to build a robot using a standard Linux as operational system, and even though, attend to certain time deadlines.

Keywords

C++ language; Linux; aerospace robotics; control engineering computing; embedded systems; field buses; microcomputers; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; C++ library; Linux operational system; USB communication interface; embedded PC; hardware architecture; master-slave model; micro UAV; microcontrollers; software architecture; unmanned aerial vehicle; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Hardware; Master-slave; Microcontrollers; Robots; Software architecture; Software libraries; Universal Serial Bus; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Hardware/Software architecture; UAV; USB; linux; master-slave;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2009 6th Latin American

Conference_Location

Valparaiso

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6256-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LARS.2009.5418318

Filename

5418318