Development of software platform for monitoring of multiple small UAVs

Abstract

In recent years, multiple UAVs-based application service have been actively considered in various application fields. Since the UAV has a high-performance camera and avionic modules, multiple UAVs can be effectively applied to the surveillance system based on autonomous flight. In order to perform the mission successfully, the flights of multiple UAVs are efficiently monitored and the communication between UAVs is supported in this system. In addition, it is needed to protect flight data from opposite party because the mission information can be deduced from the flight data. In this paper, we present a software platform displaying the flight information of multiple UAVs and protecting the important flight data based on data-sharing technique. Experimental results show that the flight data and videos for either multiple UAVs or a single UAV are seamlessly displayed through the GUI of the proposed software platform. In addition, the important flight information can be protected by the data-sharing technique.