A Distributed Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Experimentation
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The emerging area of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research has shown rapid development in recent years and offers a great number of research challenges for distributed autonomous robotics systems. In this article, a prototype distributed architecture for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle experimentation is presented which supports the development of intelligent capabilities and their integration in a robust, scalable, plug-and-play hardware/software architecture. The architecture itself uses CORBA to support its infrastructure and it is based on a reactive concentric software control philosophy. A research prototype UAV system has been built, is operational and is being tested in actual missions over urban environments.
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Appears in Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Distributed Continual Planning
Introduction We are interested in extending the existing Cooperative Intelligent Real-Time Control Architecture (CIRCA) for real-time planning and control (Musliner, Durfee, & Shin 1993; 1995) into distributed applications such as the control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In such coarse-grain distributed applications, we envision multiple autonomous agents, each controlled by a C...
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