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Multi-rotor flying vehicles (referred as UAVs here) are well suited for many applications, including patrolling, inspection, reconnaissance or mapping and they are already used in many cases. In most cases they are used in manual mode, mainly due to legal issues, but autonomous methods and algorithms for UAV navigation are under extensive development nowadays.
This article describes a test-bed system for development of the fully autonomous multi-UAV systems called MUAVET (Multi-UAV Experimental Test-bed). The system incorporates several UAVs, communicating with the base station, able to be controlled either locally from the on-board-running control application, centrally from the base station, or by any combined approach. The system provides basic safety features and autonomous/automatic functions which significantly reduce the risks of crash or loosing the UAV, even in case of wrong command from the user application. The function and the performance of the MUAVET system is demonstrated in the search-and-rescue scenario of multiple UAVs searching for the visually-marked ground objects placed in the designated area and cooperating with the autonomous ground vehicle supposed to reach the found targets on ground.
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The system MUAVET was developed in co-operation with the King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Computing and IT, Research group of Dr. Ahmed Barnawi.
This work was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic under project TE01020197 Center for Applied Cybernetics 3.
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Chudoba, J., Kozák, V., Přeučil, L. (2019). MUAVET – An Experimental Test-Bed for Autonomous Multi-rotor Applications. In: Mazal, J. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11472. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14984-0_2
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