Eugenie C. Fontaine Christopher Gutierrez Eric J. Osorio Nicolas M. Prulhiere Philip S. Giuliano
The team is creating a simulation environment for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to increase productivity and eliminate the hardware and financial risk for companies undergoing field tests...
The team is creating a simulation environment for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to increase productivity and eliminate the hardware and financial risk for companies undergoing field tests. A team-developed code inputs and receives data from UAV software, which generates the simulation using computer physics. Whoever uses this program can choose their own payload and weather parameters and will not require any hardware to perform the mission. Running Software in the Loop makes this possible but requires extensive testing and an understanding of how separate programs communicate with each other. Another challenge is making the program modular, meaning that the system’s applications are changeable and personalized to various requirements. The resulting design is a program that tests a UAV model under chosen scenarios, runs the simulation, and provides output data so that better predictions of a mission’s chances of success can be made.