Development of a hybrid UGV and UAV cooperative system

• Main Author: Fan, Tonglin
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Control engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45634
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The hybrid system refers to real world and virtual environment systems here. Setting up the platform for establishing work on collaborative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) flight formation can be rather complex and time consuming. Within this in mind, game engine is used as simulator in this project; game engine is capable of simulating sensors and UAVs for cooperative control systems. This would facilitate modeling a real world problem into virtual world for further analysis and studies, and easily establish back the solution to the real world. This allows researchers developing and testing algorithm with virtual simulator instead of trying on the real hardware, thus saving both developing time and project cost.