2018
Ramirez-Atencia, Cristian; Camacho, David
Extending QGroundControl for automated mission planning of UAVs Journal Article
In: Sensors, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 2339, 2018, ISSN: 1424-8220.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Human-Machine Interaction, Planning, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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title = {Extending QGroundControl for automated mission planning of UAVs},
author = {Cristian Ramirez-Atencia and David Camacho},
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abstract = {Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) have become very popular in the last decade due to some advantages such as strong terrain adaptation, low cost, zero casualties, and so on. One of the most interesting advances in this field is the automation of mission planning (task allocation) and real-time replanning, which are highly useful to increase the autonomy of the vehicle and reduce the operator workload. These automated mission planning and replanning systems require a Human Computer Interface (HCI) that facilitates the visualization and selection of plans that will be executed by the vehicles. In addition, most missions should be assessed before their real-life execution. This paper extends QGroundControl, an open-source simulation environment for flight control of multiple vehicles, by adding a mission designer that permits the operator to build complex missions with tasks and other scenario items; an interface for automated mission planning and replanning, which works as a test bed for different algorithms, and a Decision Support System (DSS) that helps the operator in the selection of the plan. In this work, a complete guide of these systems and some practical use cases are provided.},
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) have become very popular in the last decade due to some advantages such as strong terrain adaptation, low cost, zero casualties, and so on. One of the most interesting advances in this field is the automation of mission planning (task allocation) and real-time replanning, which are highly useful to increase the autonomy of the vehicle and reduce the operator workload. These automated mission planning and replanning systems require a Human Computer Interface (HCI) that facilitates the visualization and selection of plans that will be executed by the vehicles. In addition, most missions should be assessed before their real-life execution. This paper extends QGroundControl, an open-source simulation environment for flight control of multiple vehicles, by adding a mission designer that permits the operator to build complex missions with tasks and other scenario items; an interface for automated mission planning and replanning, which works as a test bed for different algorithms, and a Decision Support System (DSS) that helps the operator in the selection of the plan. In this work, a complete guide of these systems and some practical use cases are provided.
2015
Rodríguez-Fernández, Víctor; Menéndez, Héctor D; Camacho, David
Diseño de un Simulador de Bajo Coste para Vehículos Aéreos no Tripulados Inproceedings
In: Actas del X Congreso español sobre metaheurísticas, algoritmos evolutivos y bioinspirados: MAEB, pp. 447-454, Mérida, Cáceres, 2015, ISBN: 978-84-697-2150-6.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Web Services
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La utilización de vehículos aéreos no tripulados, o Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs), se ha popularizado enormemente en los últimos tiempos. Estos nuevos sistemas, introducidos en su mayoría por Google, han ganado una importante relevancia, dado que podrían suponer una mejora destacable en la seguridad ciudadana y tienen muchísimas aplicaciones a niveles profesionales dentro de campos muy variados, como la agricultura o el envío postal de paquetes. Sin embargo, el coste a la hora de realizar pruebas en entornos reales con estos dispositivos es muy elevado, por eso se crean simuladores capaces de poner a prueba distintas estrategias a la hora de planificar misiones en estos dispositivos. Este trabajo presenta un simulador orientado a este tipo de sistemas. Este simulador pretende ser una aproximación de bajo coste y fácilmente distribuible, que ayude a simular misiones llevadas a cabo por múltiples drones. Para evaluar su eficacia, se le ha sometido a pruebas de estrés con miles de usuarios, donde ha demostrado tener una respuesta potencialmente competitiva.
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Victor; Menendez, Hector D; Camacho, David
Design and development of a lightweight multi-UAV simulator Inproceedings
In: Cybernetics (CYBCONF), 2015 IEEE 2nd International Conference on, pp. 255–260, IEEE 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Human-Machine Interaction, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Web Services
@inproceedings{rodriguez2015design,
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author = {Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez and Hector D Menendez and David Camacho},
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This work presents a low-cost and easily distributable simulator, focused on simulating missions carried out by multiple UAVs and extracting data from them. To evaluate its effectiveness, it has been subjected to stress testing with thousands of virtual users, proving to have a potentially competitive response.},
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UAVs have become enormously popular over the last few years. These new systems could make a remarkable improvement in public safety and have many applications in a variety of fields such as agriculture or postage of packages. In order to test UAV capacities and train UAV mission operators, several simulators are used, and the use of them usually entails high costs.
This work presents a low-cost and easily distributable simulator, focused on simulating missions carried out by multiple UAVs and extracting data from them. To evaluate its effectiveness, it has been subjected to stress testing with thousands of virtual users, proving to have a potentially competitive response.
This work presents a low-cost and easily distributable simulator, focused on simulating missions carried out by multiple UAVs and extracting data from them. To evaluate its effectiveness, it has been subjected to stress testing with thousands of virtual users, proving to have a potentially competitive response.
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Victor
Development of a Multi-UAV Simulator to Analyze the Behavior of Operators in Coastal Surveillance Missions Masters Thesis
2015.
BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Operator, Simulation-based Training, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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Rodríguez-Fernández, Víctor; Menéndez, Héctor D; Camacho, David
User Profile Analysis for UAV Operators in a Simulation Environment Inproceedings
In: Computational Collective Intelligence - 7th International Conference, ICCCI 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 21-23, 2015. Proceedings, Part I, pp. 338–347, 2015.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behavioral Patterns, Clustering, Computer-based Simulation, Human-Machine Interaction, Performance Metrics, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Videogames
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iccci/Rodriguez-Fernandez15,
title = {User Profile Analysis for UAV Operators in a Simulation Environment},
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abstract = {Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been a growing field of study over the last few years. The use of unmanned systems require a strong human supervision of one or many human operators, responsible for monitoring the mission status and avoiding possible incidents that might alter the execution and success of the operation. The accelerated evolution of these systems is generating a high demand of qualified operators, which requires to redesign the training process to deal with it. This work aims to present an evaluation methodology for inexperienced users. A multi-UAV simulation environment is used to carry out an experiment focused on the extraction of performance profiles, which can be used to evaluate the behavior and learning process of the users. A set of performance metrics is designed to define the profile of a user, and those profiles are discriminated using clustering algorithms. The results are analyzed to extract behavioral patterns that distinguish the users in the experiment, allowing the identification and selection of potential expert operators.},
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been a growing field of study over the last few years. The use of unmanned systems require a strong human supervision of one or many human operators, responsible for monitoring the mission status and avoiding possible incidents that might alter the execution and success of the operation. The accelerated evolution of these systems is generating a high demand of qualified operators, which requires to redesign the training process to deal with it. This work aims to present an evaluation methodology for inexperienced users. A multi-UAV simulation environment is used to carry out an experiment focused on the extraction of performance profiles, which can be used to evaluate the behavior and learning process of the users. A set of performance metrics is designed to define the profile of a user, and those profiles are discriminated using clustering algorithms. The results are analyzed to extract behavioral patterns that distinguish the users in the experiment, allowing the identification and selection of potential expert operators.
2011
Cajias, Raul; Gonzalez-Pardo, Antonio; Camacho, David
A Multi-Agent Simulation Platform Applied to the Study of Urban Traffic Lights Conference
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, vol. 1, 2011, ISBN: 978-989-8425-76-8.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Multi-agents systems
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Cajias, Raul; Gonzalez-Pardo, Antonio; Camacho, David
A Multi-Agent Traffic Simulation Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Traffic Lights Conference
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), vol. 2, Communications in Computer and Information Science Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, ISBN: 978-989-8425-41-6.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Computer-based Simulation, Multi-agents systems
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volume = {2},
pages = {443 -- 446},
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