Development of a hybrid networked simulation platform for cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles

• Main Author: Chee, Wei Hong.
• Other Authors: Xie Lihua
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49823
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Unified System for Automation and Robot Simulation (USARSim) is a very powerful robot simulator based on the commercial game engine, Unreal Development Kit (UDK) by Epic Game. A high quality virtual world can be created by user to carry out a real-time simulation. This report describes how USARSim and LabVIEW have been combined with 3D modelling tools such as 3D Studio MAX, Urban PAD and Google SketchUp to produce an effective hybrid networked simulation platform which provides a high level of details with real-time computing speed and a flexible interface for users. Simulation results are presented based on the virtual environment that created in UDK and control algorithm implemented in LabVIEW and Matlab.