A Cloud-based Control System Architecture for Multi-UAV

摘要

Unmanned aerial vehicle is considered one of the most promising technologies. Controlling UAV over the cloud is an emerging research area motivated by the emergence of Cloud Robotics and the Internet-of-Things (IoT). This paper presents a control system architecture based on cloud platform which has been developed in order to allow multiple users to control and monitor multiple UAVs simultaneously irrespective of the location. Furthermore, the system allows to build and allocate missions to UAV and analyze the execution data that collect by sensors. The architecture of the system is fully based on open source software and protocols. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the system architecture, we implemented and validated it using SITL (software in the loop) simulator. Experimental results show that the system is efficient in monitoring and controlling UAV remotely through the Internet.