A Multimodal Control Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

We present our preliminary work on a multimodal control architecture that enables an operator to manage an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) through high level tasks in an indoors environment. The intelligence embedded in our architecture is able to decode these tasks into low level instructions that a UAV is able to execute. Our system allows the user to operate the UAV through speech, text or keyboard/mouse input, all presented in a web based graphical user interface that can be accessed from any Internet powered device.