Design and Implementation of Multi-UAV Cooperation Search Experimental platform

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a kind of aircraft which is pilotless, controlled by remote control or self-control. This paper proposes the design of a multi-UAV cooperative search experimental platform, which uses image detection of searching for targets in image frames to solve the problem of multi-UAV autonomous cooperation and control. This paper will introduce novel solutions to two main problems: multi-UAV autonomous cooperative platform construction and control algorithm verification. The research work is carried out in three parts: hardware and software platform design, multi-UAV autonomous cooperative search algorithm, and platform experimental verification. The experiments include image sensing for searching a target in the image frames, keyboard control, multi-UAV cooperation, and leader-follower formation.