Setup of a communication and control systems of a quadrotor type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Crespo, Guadalupe; Glez-de-Rivera, Guillermo; Garrido, Javier; Ponticelli, Roberto

doi:10.1109/dcis.2014.7035590

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“…The Parrot Bebop 2 [ 43 ] drone is controllable through MAVLink [ 74 ] or Micro Air Vehicle Link, which is a protocol for communicating with small unmanned vehicle. It is based on a very lightweight, header-only message marshalling library [ 75 ], which allows to codify both flight plan related instructions and measurement triggering instructions in a time ordered sequence. For example, a Flight Plan with two waypoints would be defined by a set of consecutive MAVLINK instructions, which at very high level could be: Take off—Start video capture—Go to a waypoint (with yaw constraint)—Start/finish picture capture—Go to another waypoint (with yaw constraint)—Start/finish picture capture—End video capture—Land.…”

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Drone Mission Definition and Implementation for Automated Infrastructure Inspection Using Airborne Sensors

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This paper describes a Mission Definition System and the automated flight process it enables to implement measurement plans for discrete infrastructure inspections using aerial platforms, and specifically multi-rotor drones. The mission definition aims at improving planning efficiency with respect to state-of-the-art waypoint-based techniques, using high-level mission definition primitives and linking them with realistic flight models to simulate the inspection in advance. It also provides flight scripts and measurement plans which can be executed by commercial drones. Its user interfaces facilitate mission definition, pre-flight 3D synthetic mission visualisation and flight evaluation. Results are delivered for a set of representative infrastructure inspection flights, showing the accuracy of the flight prediction tools in actual operations using automated flight control.

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Drone Mission Definition and Implementation for Automated Infrastructure Inspection Using Airborne Sensors

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“…In general, a UAV communication link can both send control commands from the GCS to the vehicle and receive data about the flight on downlink, as shown in Figure 2. A bidirectional link can be established in order to provide a communication between the drone and GCS [21]. A communication link between these two components has to provide long-range operations as well as a continuous and stable link.…”

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An Efficient SC-FDM Modulation Technique for a UAV Communication Link

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Since the communication link of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its reliability evaluation represent an arduous field, we have concentrated our work on this topic. The demand regarding the validity and reliability of the communication and data link of UAV is much higher since the environment of the modern battlefield is becoming more and more complex. Therefore, the communication channel between the vehicle and ground control station (GCS) should be secure and provide an efficient data link. In addition, similar to other types of communications, the data link of a UAV has several requirements such as long-range operation, high efficiency, reliability, and low latency. In order to achieve an efficient data link, we need to adopt a highly efficient modulation technique, which leads to an increase in the flight time of the UAV, data transmission rate, and the reliability of the communication link. For this purpose, we have investigated the single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) modulation technique for a UAV communication system. The results obtained from the comparative study demonstrate that SC-FDM has better performance than the currently used modulation technique for a UAV communication link. We expect that our proposed approach can be a remarkable framework that will help drone manufacturers to establish an efficient UAV communication link and extend the flight duration of drones, especially those being used for search and rescue operations, military tasks, and delivery services.

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“…The telemetry signal is then transmitted to the GCS and can be displayed for the pilot via open source software like Mission Planner, Q Ground Control Station, APM Planner, etc. The video channel for the First-Person View (FPV) is usually transmitted via a dedicated wireless channel, for example [8].…”

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Development of a Flexible Software Solution for Controlling Unmanned Air Vehicles via the Internet

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2018

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Remotely piloted operations of lightweight Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) are limited by transmitter power consumption and are always restricted to Line-of-Sight (LOS) distance. The use of mobile cellular network data transfer services (e.g. 3G HSPA and LTE) as well as long-range terrestrial links (e.g. LoraWAN) makes it possible to significantly extend the operation range of the remotely piloted UAV. This paper describes the development of a long-range communication solution for the UAV telemetry system. The proposed solution is based on (but not restricted to) cellular data transfer service and is implemented on Raspberry Pi under Gentoo Linux control. The goal of the project is to develop a flexible system for implementing optimized redundant network solutions for the Non-LOS remote control of the UAV

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Setup of a communication and control systems of a quadrotor type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Drone Mission Definition and Implementation for Automated Infrastructure Inspection Using Airborne Sensors

Drone Mission Definition and Implementation for Automated Infrastructure Inspection Using Airborne Sensors

An Efficient SC-FDM Modulation Technique for a UAV Communication Link

Development of a Flexible Software Solution for Controlling Unmanned Air Vehicles via the Internet

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