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T1 A virtualization approach to validate services and subsystems of a MALE UAS
A1 Sánchez Agüero, Víctor
A1 Valera Pintor, Francisco
A1 Vidal Fernández, Iván
A1 Nogales Dorado, Borja
A1 Cabezas, Jaime
A1 Vidal Bustos, Carlos
AB Current trends in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) aim at embedding intelligent functionality into these devices to enhance their utilization beyond their traditional video monitoring and recording operations, using them as complex mobile computing platforms or to support flexible communication network infrastructures. As a consequence, while UAS necessarily increase their complexity, the whole development cycle of services/applications of UAS, together with the management, operation, testing, validation, and maintenance, becomes even more challenging since the computing hardware has to be onboarded and ready to fly. This article presents a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) surveillance UAS developed by the Spanish Ministry of Defense (the MILANO, from the National Institute of Aerospace Technology), used as a reference for the developments in this paper. The article also presents the virtualization platform that is being used in the system to facilitate the deployment of all the communication service components in the real MILANO platform (e.g., routing, switching, channel selection functionalities), although it also supports other types of applications (e.g., telemetry preprocessing, including sensors and video, route planning). In addition, this platform is complemented by an emulation infrastructure (to reproduce different mobility patterns and radio communication link status) used to boost the whole testing and validation cycle before onboarding the hardware and scheduling expensive flight campaigns, and facilitating the overall UAS software maintenance during the operations phase. Finally, the article describes the experiments performed with the MILANO equipment, validating the application and functionality of the overall platform.
PB IEEE
SN 978-1-6654-0926-1
YR 2022
FD 2022-05-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36613
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36613
LA eng
NO Proceedings of: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 02-05 May 2022, New York, USA.
NO This work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M21), in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation), the TRUE5G (PID2019108713RB681) project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and the H2020 Labyrinth project (grant agreement 861696). The authors wish to thank Alicia López Campos for her support during the experiments.
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