Design and Development of Micro Aerial Vehicles and Their Cooperative Systems for Target Search and Tracking
Open Access
- 1 June 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
- Vol. 1 (2), 139-153
- https://doi.org/10.1260/175682909789498251
Abstract
This paper presents Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and their cooperative systems including Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and a Base Station (BS), which were primarily designed for the 1st US-Asian Demonstration and Assessment on Micro-Aerial and Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology (MAV08). The MAVs are of coaxial design, which imparts mechanical stability both outdoor and indoor while obeying a 30 cm size constraint. They have carbon fibre frames for weight reduction allowing microcontrollers and various sensors to be mounted on-board for tele-operated and waypoint control. The UGVs are similarly equipped to perform their own search and tracking mission but also to support the MAVs by relaying data between the MAVs and the BS when they are out of direct range. The BS monitors the vehicles and their environment and navigates them autonomously or with humans in the loop through the developed GUI. The ability of the MAV in flight was demonstrated by showing continuous hovering. The efficacy of the overall system was validated by autonomously controlling two UGVs for cooperative search.Keywords
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