RT-Linux based hard real-time software architecture for unmanned autonomous helicopters

Won Eui Hong, Jae Shin Lee, Laxmisha Rai, Soon Ju Kang

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Abstract

The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) performs various kinds of missions while performing autonomous flight navigation. In order to realize all functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes a very complex hard real-time system because some hard real-time tasks, soft real-time tasks and non-real-time tasks are concurrently working together under a RTOS. In this paper, a hierarchical architecture for Unmanned Autonomous Helicopter System is proposed that guarantees the real-time performance of hard real-time tasks and the re-configurability of soft realtime or non-real-time tasks under the RT-Linux. This software architecture has four layers: hardware, execution, service agent and remote user interface layer according to the reactiveness level for external events. In addition, the layered separation of concurrent tasks makes different kinds of mission reconfiguration possible in the system. An Unmanned autonomous helicopter system was implemented using Kyosho RC Helicopter to test and evaluate the performance of the proposed systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
Pages555-558
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 17 Aug 200519 Aug 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period17/08/0519/08/05

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