Visual navigation for airborne control of ground robots from tethered platform: creation of the first prototype

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of a control system for ground robots using a tethered aerial platform for navigation and supervision, including the creation of an initial prototype for coordinated robot control.

Contribution

It introduces a novel control system utilizing tethered aerial devices for efficient ground robot coordination and environment supervision, with an initial prototype demonstrated.

Findings

Prototype successfully demonstrates tethered aerial control of ground robots.

System effectively traces and supervises robots using environmental markings.

Foundation laid for more complex future prototypes.

Abstract

We propose control systems for the coordination of the ground robots. We develop robot efficient coordination using the devices located on towers or a tethered aerial apparatus tracing the robots on controlled area and supervising their environment including natural and artificial markings. The simple prototype of such a system was created in the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics of Ariel University (under the supervision of Prof. Domoshnitsky Alexander) in collaboration with company TRANSIST VIDEO LLC (Skolkovo, Moscow). We plan to create much more complicated prototype using Kamin grant (Israel)