EAMOS: Execution of Aerial Multidrone Mission Operations and Specifications Framework

Tools for specifying and executing multidrone missions that go beyond pure orchestration of waypoints are rare. We present the EAMOS framework, which introduces a simple and intuitive text-based mission specification process to execute a multidrone mission onboard different heterogeneous drones. Key benefits of EAMOS are the easy handling of sequential and parallel drone actions and their automatic synchronization. A uniform drone-interface abstracts the handling of different drone types, and specialized mission control structures enable specifying high-level missions. Our EAMOS prototype has been completely implemented in Go and successfully demonstrated in combination with the Airsim multidrone simulation environment and the PX4 flight controller as a software-in-the-loop component. Synchronization among multiple drones wrt. their sequentially and concurrently performed actions as well as the correct application of mission control structures behave as expected.