Autonomous system for mission control and flight safety in UAVs

• Grant number: 15/23182-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: March 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Claudio Fabiano Motta Toledo
• Grantee: Jesimar da Silva Arantes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07375-0 - CeMEAI - Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This document aims to present the doctorate proposal to be developed in the Doctoral Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at ICMC / USP. The thesis will address the development of autonomous systems for mission control and flight safety in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The mission control will be ensured through the implementation of Mission Oriented Sensor Array (MOSA) system, which is responsible for the proper fulfillment of mission. The flight safety will be guaranteed by the In-Flight Awareness (IFA) system, which is responsible for monitoring the aircraft operation. The whole operation of the mentioned systems will require the development of algorithms able to guarantee the proposed functionality. The systems will be validated in three steps: simulations with flight simulator FlightGear, simulations using Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and real flights, where the systems will be embedded in the Ararinha UAV model developed at ICMC / USP.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ARANTES, JESIMAR DA SILVA; ARANTES, MARCIO DA SILVA; MOTTA TOLEDO, CLAUDIO FABIAN; TRINDADE JUNIOR, ONOFRE; WILLIAMS, BRIAN C.; ACM. An Embedded System Architecture based on Genetic Algorithms for Mission and Safety Planning with UAV. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO'17), v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2017-01-01. (13/26091-2, 14/11331-0, 15/23182-2)

ARANTES, JESIMAR DA SILVA; ARANTES, MARCIO DA SILVA; MISSAGLIA, ANDRE BADAWI; SIMOES, EDUARDO DO VALLE; MOTTA TOLEDO, CLAUDIO FABIAO; IEEE. Evaluating Hardware Platforms and Path Re-Planning Strategies for the UAV Emergency Landing Problem. 2017 IEEE 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2017), v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2017-01-01. (13/07375-0, 14/11331-0, 15/23182-2)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ARANTES, Jesimar da Silva. Autonomous system for mission control and flight safety in UAVs. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB) São Carlos.