MULTI-UAV ARCHITECTURE FOR GROUND DATA COLLECTION

The paper presents a unmanned aerial system (UAS), based on a multi-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) architecture, integrated in Internet, able to collect data from ground wireless sensor networks (WSNs), deployed on large areas. The contributions were focused on the way of mission planning and data collecting: navigation algorithm, transfer of flight trajectory in UAS, storing trajectories to UAS ground part, and data transfer between WSN and UAV. The system can be used for aerial monitoring in many civilian fields of activity. The experimental results, focusing on communication performances, prove the real time data collection in different scenarios with the ground control station at distance (internet connection).