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

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 July 2011

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

600

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations, Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0573-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2011.5986630

Filename

5986630