Multiagent aerial vehicles system for ecological monitoring

A paper describes the multiagent system of aerial vehicles for difficult to access area's ecological monitoring. The main object of this systems applying is exploration of locality in case of technogenic accident and catastrophe, elemental calamity. The system is able to keep the formation during the movement on the optimal trajectory for the fastest exploration of locality. The group of agents is able to be controlled both manually and full-automatically as a result of composite navigational system applying which allows global positioning and local navigation each of agents. All of agents are equipped with the system of sensors and cameras and the data from them can be saved in local agent's memory as well as can be transmitted to the base station in real time. Because of aerial vehicles configuration with high maneuverability and the speed below 24 km/h the system shows high mobility and allows monitor the state of the natural environment as well as indoor area.