Proposed testbed for the modeling and control of a system of autonomous vehicles

Abstract

Large scale multi-agent systems are very important in todays world because of their varying uses. The Center for Testing, Evaluation and Control of Heterogeneous Large scale Autonomous Vehicles (TECHLAV) has been tasked to conduct research on Large Scale Autonomous Systems of Vehicles (LSASV). This paper focuses on the proposed testbed system that will help model the large scale system out in the field for Modeling, Analysis and Control tasks for LSASV (MACLAV). The system will use a team of UGVs, UAVs and AUVs to navigate, interact and complete missions through an unknown area as a cohesive unit. A small private cloud provides a computational backbone to the system.