Tiriba - a new approach of UAV based on model driven development and multiprocessors

Author

Branco, Kalinka R L J C ; Pelizzoni, Jorge Marques ; Neris, Luciano Oliveira ; Trindade, Onofre, Jr. ; Osório, Fernando Santos ; Wolf, Denis Fernando

Author_Institution

ICMC Inst. de Cienc. Mat. e de Comput., USP Univ. de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

9-13 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the technical details of Tiriba, which is a small autonomous electrical airplane used into pre-defined missions and applications such as agricultural and environmental monitoring. This class of aircrafts has taken advantage of the miniaturization of electronic components and modules such as GPS receivers, digital cameras, wireless communication equipment, and other sensors. One of the main components of Tiriba is the autopilot module, which is capable to control the aircraft and keep it in a predefined route. This paper addresses the use of model driven development of the system and its multiprocessor platform to support the four components that compose the UAV control software architecture.

Keywords

aircraft control; control engineering computing; mobile robots; multiprocessing systems; remotely operated vehicles; software architecture; Tiriba UAV; UAV control software architecture; aircraft control; autonomous electrical airplane; autopilot module; electronic component miniaturization; model driven development; multiprocessor platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-386-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980581

Filename

5980581