[Studies in Computational Intelligence 481] Artur Babiarz, Robert Bieda, Karol Jędrasiak, Aleksander Nawrat (auth.), Aleksander Nawrat, Zygmunt Kuś (eds.) - Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications (2013, Sprin

The Dedicated Wireless Communication Device
for Group of Unmanned Vehicles
Krzysztof Daniec, Karol Jędrasiak, Roman Koteras, Aleksander Nawrat,
and Tadeusz Topór-Kamiński
Abstract. This article describes communication system designed and implemented
on Silesian University of Technology based on experience acquired in
previews projects. Communication system was designed for micro UAVs. First
part of this work describes physical layer and second part describes software layer
such as data encryption, establishing and maintaining connection. Proposed devices
was tested on group of UAVs and acquired results are very promising.
1 Introduction
Communication is one of the most important aspects of monitoring, managing and
remote controlling various types of unmanned vehicles. Currently most of the
unmanned vehicles are controlled remotely by a trained operator. Such approach is
sufficient and efficient only for the small scale operations. In case of need of application
of a large group of unmanned vehicles at the same time another approach
is required. One of the commonly used solutions is partial autonomy of the object.
The role of the operator is changed from continuously controlling to simple issuing
orders to the vehicle . A significant amount of unmanned vehicles are large
enough to carry some type of dedicated computer that is responsible for communication
and autonomous navigation. However the size and especially the weight of
the computer is not small enough for application in miniature, flying objects.
Therefore new dedicated miniature communication device was required to
develop.
Krzysztof Daniec ⋅ Karol Jędrasiak ⋅ Roman Koteras ⋅ Aleksander Nawrat ⋅
Tadeusz Topór-Kamiński
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Automatic Control,
Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland
e-mail: {krzysztof.daniec,karol.jedrasiak,
roman.koteras,aleksander.nawrat}@polsl.pl
A. Nawrat and Z. Kuś (Eds.): Vision Based Systems for UAV Applications, SCI 481, pp. 247–255.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00369-6_16 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013