Towards building a generic sensor cloud for human-centric sensing applications

A Perceptual Computing based Gesture Controlled Quadcopter for Visual Tracking and Transportation

“…To study the PCQCS's viability to emergency mission scenarios, the authors have integrated the PCQCS into one of the existing sensor fusion architectures, called Persistent Surveillance Storage Architecture (PSSA) (Boddhu, Williams, & Yue, 2015), which was proven to be effective in real-world time-critical situational awareness and human-centric sensing applications, where the delay in fusing the actuator, controller and sensor data, is unacceptable, and a central command control is an absolute requirement (Boddhu, 2013). From a logical perspective, the PSSA consists of four customizable software layers: Ingestion Services, Application Services, Data Services, and Dissemination Services as shown in Figure 7.…”

“…Similarly, the PSSA is designed to support the distribution of sensor data and related exploitation data to any visualization platform by "plugging" in standards based and custom built dissemination services. More details about PSSA can be found in (Boddhu, Williams, & Yue, 2015).…”

“…The other subsystem of PCQCS, involving human operators, kinetic systems and visualization (displays) are also modelled as multi-model sensor system, with publisher and subscriber modules, completing the distributed view of the proposed PCQCS in Figure 1. Further, an extended test to simulate a scenario of Quadcopters, going far beyond not only the line-of-sight, but across multiple PSSA cloud instances, called PSSA sky architecture (Boddhu, Williams, & Yue, 2015), was tested and verified.…”