DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TO SUPPORT DATA SURVIVABILITY IN AN UNMANNED MULTI-VEHICLE SYSTEM
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Authors
Pommer, Peter J.
Subjects
distributed ledger
blockchain
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV
unmanned vehicle system
UVS
Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory
ARSENL
blockchain
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV
unmanned vehicle system
UVS
Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory
ARSENL
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Irvine, Cynthia E.
Davis, Duane T.
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2021-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Autonomous vehicle systems, including multi-vehicle systems, are becoming increasingly relevant in military operations. A problem emerges, however, when logging data within these systems. In particular, loss of individual vehicles and inherently lossy and noisy communications environments can result in the loss of important mission data. This thesis presents a novel distributed ledger protocol that can be used to ensure that the data in such a system survives. To test the efficacy of the protocol, we implemented it as a Robot Operating System (ROS) node on the Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory (ARSENL) aerial swarm system. Results are presented for implementation tests in the ARSENL software-in-the-loop simulation environment and during live-flight field experiments conducted at Camp Roberts, CA.
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Computer Science (CS)
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