A multi-payload simulator for cooperative UAS missions

Multi-UAS Minimum Time Search in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments

“…One of the main challenges of the project was to include the theses contributions within Airbus R&T GCS, which forms part of the UAS simulator (SAVIER Demostrator) that controls the UAV ATLANTE. Besides, with the purpose of testing the contributions of the theses that deal with multiple UAVs, a multi-UAV freesource UAS that uses QGroundControl GCS was also developed during the project (Jesús Ruiz et al, 2016).…”

“…This simulated unmanned aerial system uses the open-source QGroundControl (QGC) station to control the UAVs and Unity3D engine to simulate the environment. Further information about its original architecture can be found in (Jesús Ruiz et al, 2016).…”

Multiple UAV Systems: A Survey

“…Several works are dedicated to video surveillance or use it as an example application in experiments [36,48,49,55,76]. One of them [36] describes a novel system of cameramounted UAVs that can provide a coverage of multiple oriented targets.…”

“…Most of them speak about low-cost sensors and just three of the papers speak about high-tech payload. Those are [75] speaking about thermal imaging, [55] having LiDaR simulated in their works, and [35] speaking about cooperative area reconnaissance using lasers. No experiments were performed in those works, but only simulations.…”

“…There they propose a methodology to develop it and analyze different techniques. Authors of [55] reported that there is a need in modern multiple UAV systems simulators. According to them, payload modeling is a very important problem.…”