Rapid Flight Control Prototyping - Steps Toward Cooperative Mission-Oriented Capabilities
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Dobrokhodov, Vladimir
Jones, Kevin
Kaminer, Isaac
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2013-05
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The paper describes the latest advancements in
the development of the Rapid Flight Control Prototyping system
that were motivated primarily by the need to enable cooperative
missions of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and to enhance
the capabilities of human operators to design and oversee the
collaborative behaviors of multiple heterogeneous UAVs. The
evolution of the system is driven by the mission level objectives
and supported on one hand by the progress in miniature
sensors, computational power, communication and portable
energy technologies and on the other hand by the advanced
capabilities of embedded control and communication-oriented
software. As a result the developed system enables rapid design,
onboard integration and in-flight verification of multiple UAV
collaborative concepts that seemed impossible just a couple of
years ago. Advantages of the designed system are illustrated by
a couple of scenarios that were recently developed and verified
in flight by multiple cooperating UAVs. The paper concentrates
on presenting the motivation and the conceptual design ideas
which drive the evolution of the flight prototyping platform.
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Evolution of RFCPS system has been funded in part by the National Air and Space Administration under Contracts NNX08BA64A, NNX08BA65A, NNX08AB97A, NNX08AC81A, and NNL08AA12I; ARO under Contract No.W911NF-06-1-0330, the USSOCOM/NPS Field Experimentation Cooperative, the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-05-1-0828.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.