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Title:
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Service Abstraction Layer for UAV Flexible Application Development
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Author:
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Royo Chic, Pablo; López, Juan; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Pastor Llorens, Enric
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ICARUS - Intelligent Communications and Avionics for Robust Unmanned Aerial Systems |
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Abstract:
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An Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) is an uninhabited airplane, piloted by embed-
ded avionics and supervised by an operator on ground. Unmanned Aerial Systems were
designed to operate in dangerous situations, like military missions. With the avionics tech-
nological evolution, Unmanned Aerial Systems also become a valid option for commercial
applications, specially for dull and tedious surveillance applications. Cost considerations
will also deviate some mission done today with conventional aircrafts to Unmanned Aerial
Systems.
In order to build economically viable UAS solutions, the same platform should be able
to implement a variety of missions with little reconfiguration time and overhead. This
paper describes a software abstraction layer for a Unmanned Aerial System distributed
architecture. The proposed abstraction layer allows the easy and fast design of missions
and solves in a cost-effective way the reusability of the system.
The distributed architecture of the Unmanned Aerial System is service oriented. Func-
tional units are implemented as independent services that interact each other using commu-
nication primitives in a network centric approach. The paper presents a set of predefined
services useful for reconfigurable civil missions and the directives for their communication. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Aeronàutica i espai
-Drone aircraft
-Unmanned Aerial System
-Software abstraction layer
-UAS -- Distributed arquitecture
-Avions no tripulats |
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Document type:
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Conference Object |
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Published by:
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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