Designing an Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Control Model for an
Air-to-Ground Collaborative System 01-17-02-0014
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SAE International Journal of Aerospace-V133-1EJ
In autonomous technology, uncrewed aircraft systems have already become the
preferred platform for the research and development of flight control systems.
Although they are subjected to following and satisfying complicated scenarios of
control stations, this high dependency on a specific control framework limits
them in their application process and reduces the flight self-organizing
network. In this article, we present a developed multilayer control system
protocol with the additional supportive manned aircraft layer
(Tender). The novelty of the introduced model is that
uncrewed aircraft systems are monitored and navigated by the tender, and then
based on the suggested scheme, data flows are controlled and transferred across
the network by the developed cloud–robotics approach in the ground station
layer. Therefore, it has been tried to design a semi-autonomous control network
to gather data that combines human observation and the automotive nature of
uncrewed aircraft systems. To ensure the accuracy and correctness of the model,
we simulate our approach in the software-in-the-loop using its web-based
interface with new configurations in the hardware and software architecture of
the network. Results will be examined by the in-order per message delay, which
has recorded a considerably low latency in both the uplink and downlink data
transmission processes. This optimization is achieved along with maintaining the
quality of data.
Citation: Millar, R., Laliberté, J., Mahmoodi, A., Hashemi, L. et al., "Designing an Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Control Model for an Air-to-Ground Collaborative System," SAE Int. J. Aerosp. 17(2):2024, https://doi.org/10.4271/01-17-02-0014. Download Citation
Author(s):
Richard C. Millar, Jeremy Laliberté, Armin Mahmoodi, Leila Hashemi, Robert Walter Meyer
Affiliated:
The George Washington University, Engineering Management & Systems
Engineering, USA, Carleton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Canada, State University of New York, Chemical Engineering, USA
Pages: 17
ISSN:
1946-3855
e-ISSN:
1946-3901
Related Topics:
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Research and development
Flight control systems
Architecture
Communication protocols
Internet of things (IoT)
Software-in-the-loop (SIL)
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