Integrating Small Satellite Communication in an Autonomous Vehicle Network: A Case on Oceanography
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Small satellites and autonomous vehicles have greatly evolved in the last few decades. Hundreds of small satellites have been launched with increasing functionalities, in the last few years. Likewise, numerous autonomous vehicles have been built, with decreasing costs and form-factor payloads. Here we focus on combining these two multifaceted assets in an incremental way. The first goal is to create a highly reliable and constantly available communication link for a network of autonomous vehicles, taking advantage of the small satellite lower cost, with respect to conventional spacecraft, and its higher flexibility. We have developed a test platform as a proving ground for this network, by integrating a satellite software defined radio on an unmanned air vehicle, creating a system of systems. Several experiments have been run successfully. After this first step is fully operational, we could, in practice, move on towards a cooperative network of autonomous vehicles and small satellites.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1710.10977 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017