Control integrated query processing system for coordination of multiple UAVs

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining more popularity thanks to their versatility, miniaturization, and inexpensiveness. Beyond the limits of single UAV system, multi-UAV systems which can perform complex missionoriented tasks better have been recently introduced. However, previous systems are less automated in the way that human intervention is still required to execute missions, and they were implemented for the only purpose of carrying out specific scenarios. In this paper, in order to automate the required procedures in the system and increase system flexibility, we propose a control integrated query processing system for coordination of multiple UAVs. We devise a high level query language to express a user command for a variety of UAVs' tasks by integrating the ways of controlling movements and actions of multiple UAVs and collecting data from them. We present the overall architecture of the query processing system and experimental results on testbed using real UAVs.