Design and Structural Analysis for an Autonomous UAV System Consisting of Slave MAVs with Obstacle Detection Capability Guided by a Master UAV Using Swarm Control

Abstract

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft without a human pilot. It can either be controlled manually by a pilot on the ground using a trans-receiver or it can be programmed to operate autonomously. In this proposed control system, multiple slave Micro Aerial Vehicles(MAV) are dispatched from a master UAV for surveillance. All the MAVs are synchronized with each other through the master UAV which highlights their purpose and position. The master UAV acts as a mobile base for the surveillance, it stores the data collected by the MAVs and transmits them to a remote base. A design of the UAV-MAV system and its performance analysis is presented.