Base Station GUI for monitoring and controlling 2 cooperative UGVs

This Matlab Graphical User Interface (GUI) enables an operator to monitor and control 2 autonomous or semi-autonomous cooperative Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) simultaneously.

An autonomous controller determines the control actions of the autonomous UGVs that perform Search And Tracking (SAT) for a target and effectively increase the information gain of the target Probability Density Function (PDF). Since the Bayesian SAT technique is accelerated by the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), the autonomous controller is able to achieve real-time (3-5 Hz) SAT with a grid size of 580 x 457.

A semi-autonomous controller sends waypoints that are provided by the operator through the GUI to the semi-autonomous UGVs wirelessly. The low-level controller on the UGVs then navigate to the desired waypoints based on their on-board readings from Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU) and digital compass.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• GUI
• Unmanned
• Ground
• Vehicle
• UGV
• cooperative
• Search
• Tracking
• SAT
• Base
• Station
• Matlab