UAV Hardware-in-loop Simulation System Based on Right-angle Robot

In this paper, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation system based on a right-angle robot is proposed. It can verify the dynamic control, object detection, object tracking, object localization and image mosaic algorithms of the optical loads in experimental environment. With this simulation system the researchers can depend less on real UAV system and reduce the developing cost and risk greatly. The simulation results also can provide instructions to the real application.