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Design of Multi-Agent UAV Simulator to Support the Development of the MARSNet Communication Protocol

Jonathan Ponniah, Or D. Dantsker, Renato Mancuso

AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, June 2019, Dallas, TX, USA

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Figure 4. Simulator architecture diagram showing the ROS Machine handling dynamics simulation and the UAV processes, the communication interfaces, and the ns-3 network simulator.

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a simulator that interfaces ns-3, 1 an event-based network simulator, with ROS 2 and Gazebo, 3 a time-based robotics simulator and physics engine. The proposed simulator is not a replacement for either ROS or ns-3. Rather, it is part of broader efforts to develop a demand-response framework for the decentralized control of multi-agent systems that jointly addresses some of the challenges in task assignment, motion-planning, and distributed communication.

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@inproceedings{MARSNet_AIAA19,
  title     = {{Design of Multi-Agent UAV Simulator to Support the Development of the MARSNet Communication Protocol}},
  author    = {Ponniah, Jonathan and Dantsker, Or D. and Mancuso, Renato},
  booktitle = {AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum},
  year      = 2019,
  month     = jun,
  address   = {Dallas, TX, USA},
  doi       = {10.2514/6.2019-3114},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-3114}
}

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