Indoor Experimental Testbed for Groups of Aerial Vehicles

PATRICIO MORENO; IGNACIO MAS; JUAN GIRIBET

CABA

Congreso; Congreso Argentino de Control Automático AADECA'16; 2016

AADECA

Over the last years, progress has been made replacing a unique, complex and expensive vehicle with a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (fleet). These vehicles have lower cost and complexity but as a group could achieve the same functionality. This growing tendency extends to constellations of satellites and groups of robots in diverse environments. How to control these groups is a subject of increasing relevance and over the last years several methods for the coordinated control of robots have been proposed. In this work, we present an experimental testbed in an indoor environment for groups of aerial robots. The system allows to identify models of different vehicles and test coordinated control techniques. Experimental results are shown using a group of quadrotors.