UAV as a service: Enabling on-demand access and on-the-fly re-tasking of multi-tenant UAVs using cloud services

Justin Yapp, Remzi Seker, Radu Babiceanu
2016 2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)  
As commercial roles for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more well-defined and demand for the services provided by them increases, UAVs rely more on new cloud computing services and co-opertive coordination to provide mission planning, control, tracking and data processing . We present UAV as a Service (UAVaaS) framework, which brings features commonly found in traditional cloud services, such as Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service, to the domain of UAVs. Our work aims to
more » ... onceptualize and design UAVaaS for commercial applications. Specifically, a cloud-provided orchestration framework that allows multi-tenant UAVs to easily serve multiple, heterogeneous clients at once and automatically re-task them to users with higher priority, mid-flight, if needed. This research utilizes a spiral model design approach to formally define the UAVaaS framework, and to identify key focus areas, protocols, data structures, network topologies, and message patterns. A safety and security analysis is performed to mitigate potential risks that are present in the system and a prototype simulation is implemented as proof of concept. ii Acknowledgements Abstract i
doi:10.1109/dasc.2016.7778007 fatcat:sq32kfwsjzcblm45qfrjtlwjku