| Chitoshi Tamaoki |
Visiting Scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802, and M.S. student, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Aircraft Systems, Stuttgart, Germany. | | Thanakorn Khamvilai |
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802. | | Eric Johnson |
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802. | | Johannes Reinhart |
Ph.D candidate, Institute of Aircraft Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. | | Bjoern Annighoefer |
Professor, Institute of Aircraft Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. |
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| Abstract:
In the foreseeable future, the collaboration and information sharing between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and conventional aircraft is expected to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of aviation operations. The scope of this article is a proof-of-concept demonstration of a multi-vehicle self-adaptive avionics system where computing resources can be shared across multiple vehicles with the same mission. This increases the flexibility and adaptivity to changing multi-vehicle missions, and failure tolerance of the whole system of interconnected vehicles. Furthermore, it allows optimized usage of resources. Those new features will be achieved by Plug and Fly Avionics (PAFA), a self-organizing avionics platform, developed by the Institute of Aircraft Systems at the University of Stuttgart. To demonstrate the concept, a scenario with a sudden loss of a mission device is simulated. Two separate mission devices with PAFA are used to operate a single drone on which one of the computers is mounted. When the mounted mission device fails, the other mission device detects the failure and seamlessly takes over the mission task to continue the flight. The flight test was successfully conducted and the drone had safely recovered from the incident.
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