COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND CREATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES TO FORM A MODEL OF SWARM INTERACTION

Abstract

The subject of study is the process of creating an unmanned aerial vehicle of the helicopter type, which is able to perform autonomous flight and be used in the premises to test the algorithms of swarm interaction. The aim is to reduce the cost of forming and operating the UAV swarm intelligence model, ensuring compatibility with existing hardware positioning systems and simulation software platforms. Tasks: to analyze the existing prototypes of unmanned aerial vehicles of the helicopter type, used for modeling and testing of autonomous flight modes indoors; to review the systems of positioning and exchange of information between the participants of the swarm formation and to analyze the hardware systems necessary for the implementation of these systems; to develop the architecture of hardware subsystems for unmanned aerial vehicles capable of performing tasks at the level of the considered prototypes; design a case for a sound hardware platform, check its operational parameters, implement its collection and testing; install software that allows you to check the operability of the considered platform of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The methods used are: systems analysis used to compare models of unmanned aerial vehicles within the tasks, methods of analysis and synthesis of schemes for the implementation of the hardware platform, the method of graphic modeling for the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle, methods of system programming for flight program. The following results were obtained. The choice of the hardware platform of the unmanned aerial vehicle is substantiated; the hull for the helicopter was developed and implemented, two platforms of unmanned aerial vehicles were collected and tested during autonomous flight indoors. Conclusions. The study found that there are existing and widely used platforms for compatible indoor flight. These platforms are open and closed. The analysis of open hardware platforms and synthesis of architecture of own unmanned aerial vehicle is made. The designed and implemented unmanned aerial vehicle is capable of autonomous flight, has all the necessary components to perform a compatible flight program. As part of the layout of swarm interaction, it is necessary to further adjust the positioning system.