Multiple Networks Based Control System Design for Unmanned Surveillance Application

Abstract

Network is an essential technology for control system during surveillance application. The unmanned surveillance application employed many agents for unmanned service. These agents cover a wide area for security and communicate with a control system. Therefore, the control system is able to check the status of agents and send/receive data by using multiple networks. In addition, it is necessary to provide an interface for mission commands to agents. The interface must facilitate for users to monitor and assign a task required of all agents. In this paper, we propose a design of multiple networks based control system to implement in wide surveillance areas. The proposed system builds as the test bed by connecting with fixed/mobile agents through a number of communication methods, and it is proved usability in a real environment.