Ground Station Software Design of Tethered Airship Monitoring System

Abstract

Tethered airship monitoring system means the airship carrying camera to monitor designated area in the air. Tethered airship monitoring system contains control system on airship and ground station. Ground station realizes the communication with control system, the control of system in airship, the reflection of airship stance and controlling state of airship, receiving the real-time video from camera in airship. The design used VC to develop software, used the DirectInput of DirectX to realize handle control, used the DirectShow of DirectX to realize video display. Experiments shows that the system works well, the real-time of communication is high, complete every function well and it also has good expansibility.