The cooperation between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using a mission planner

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to perform a cooperation between multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles via a mission planner. This mission planner is a generic one which could be used not only for UAV domain but also for other human-machine systems such as maritime, automotive and manned aerial vehicle (MAV). It is a completed mission planner including the high level task planning and low level of collision avoidance. Our first scenario shows the cooperation between UAVs during doing tasks when the number of UAVs is greater than that of tasks. The later scenarios will be the cooperation between two types of UAV: fixed-wing aircraft and rotor-craft for different types of task. This mission planner contributes a new module to both simulation platform and real demonstrator of relevant projects.