Neptus, Command and Control Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Vehicles

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2007

Authors

Paulo Sousa Dias (Author) FEUP; José Queirós Pinto (Author) FEUP; Rui Gonçalves (Author) FEUP; J. Borges de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Gil Gonçalves (Author) FEUP; Fernando Lobo Pereira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Rome, Italy, 10 a 14 de Abril de 2007

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): Neptus, a command and control infrastructure for heterogeneous teams of autonomous vehicles. Having different types of vehicles at our laboratory and from our partners, there was an increasing need to create a common infrastructure to all these systems. Additionally, a tool to support the entire mission life cycle (Planning, Execution, Review and Dissemination) was lacking. Neptus was created to provide vehicle independence and seamless inter-systems communications. Currently, Neptus has been already tested with Remotely Operated Vehicles, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Unmanned Air Vehicles, Autonomous Surface Vehicles and Wireless Sensor Networks. Some of these systems were operated simultaneously by various operating consoles that were sharing the same communication infrastructure. The received data was being relayed to a web server that allowed for the real-time mission following by using a common web browser.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific