A Ground Control Station for a Multi-UAV Surveillance System

Authors:
Daniel Perez;Ivan Maza;Fernando Caballero;David Scarlatti;Enrique Casado;Anibal Ollero
Affiliations:
Grupo de Robotica, Vision y Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain;Grupo de Robotica, Vision y Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain;Grupo de Robotica, Vision y Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain;Boeing Research & Technology Europe, Madrid, Spain 28042;Boeing Research & Technology Europe, Madrid, Spain 28042;Grupo de Robotica, Vision y Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain and Center for Advanced Aerospace Technology (CATEC), Parque Tecnológico y Aeronáutico de Andalucía, La R ...
Venue:
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents the ground control station developed for a platform composed by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance missions. The software application is fully based on open source libraries and it has been designed as a robust and decentralized system. It allows the operator to dynamically allocate different tasks to the UAVs and to show their operational information in a 3D realistic environment in real time. The ground control station has been designed to assist the operator in the challenging task of managing a system with multiple UAVs, trying to reduce his workload. The multi-UAV surveillance system has been demonstrated in field experiments using two quadrotors equipped with visual cameras.