FLYAQ: Enabling Non-expert Users to Specify and Generate Missions of Autonomous Multicopters

2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Pub Date : 2015-11-09 DOI:10.1109/ASE.2015.104

D. Bozhinoski, D. D. Ruscio, I. Malavolta, Patrizio Pelliccione, Massimo Tivoli

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Multicopters are increasingly popular since they promise to simplify a myriad of everyday tasks. Currently, vendors provide low-level APIs and basic primitives to program multicopters, making mission development a task-specific and error-prone activity. As a consequence, current approaches are affordable only for users that have a strong technical expertise. Then, software engineering techniques are needed to support the definition, development, and realization of missions at the right level of abstraction and involving teams of autonomous multicopters that guarantee the safety today's users expect. In this paper we describe a tool that enables end-users with no technical expertise, e.g., firefighters and rescue workers, to specify missions for a team of multicopters. The detailed flight plan that each multicopter must perform to accomplish the specified mission is automatically generated by preventing collisions between multicopters and obstacles, and ensuring the preservation of no-fly zones.

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FLYAQ:使非专家用户能够指定和生成自主多直升机的任务

多翼直升机越来越受欢迎，因为它们承诺简化无数的日常任务。目前，供应商提供低级api和基本原语来编程多直升机，使任务开发成为特定于任务且容易出错的活动。因此，目前的方法只有具有强大技术专长的用户才能负担得起。然后，需要软件工程技术来支持任务的定义、开发和实现，在正确的抽象层次上，并涉及到保证当今用户期望的安全的自主多旋翼机团队。在本文中，我们描述了一种工具，可以使没有技术专长的最终用户，例如消防员和救援人员，为多架直升机团队指定任务。自动生成多旋翼机为完成指定任务而必须执行的详细飞行计划，以防止多旋翼机与障碍物的碰撞，并确保禁飞区的保留。

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