Development of a Flexible Software Solution for Controlling Unmanned Air Vehicles via the Internet

Deniss Brodņevs

Abstract


Remotely piloted operations of lightweight Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) are limited by transmitter power consumption and are always restricted to Line-of-Sight (LOS) distance. The use of mobile cellular network data transfer services (e.g. 3G HSPA and LTE) as well as long-range terrestrial links (e.g. LoraWAN) makes it possible to significantly extend the operation range of the remotely piloted UAV. This paper describes the development of a long-range communication solution for the UAV telemetry system. The proposed solution is based on (but not restricted to) cellular data transfer service and is implemented on Raspberry Pi under Gentoo Linux control. The goal of the project is to develop a flexible system for implementing optimized redundant network solutions for the Non-LOS remote control of the UAV

Keywords:
3G; 4G; Cellular network; Internet; LTE; Remote control; RPAS; Telemetry; Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)

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DOI: 10.2478/tae-2018-0005

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