Design and development of an unmanned aerial vehicles mobility simulator

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles, known also as drones, used and developed initially in the military field, have experienced profound changes in recent years and are increasingly used in the civilian field. They are used for firefighting, rescue as well as in specific applications such as surveillance and attack. The fleet flight is the most used because it allows a judicious distribution of the tasks and greatly improves the efficiency of the drones. Real experiments using UAVs are costly, therefore, the performances of UAVs systems should be analyzed before their deployments. Accordingly, researchers and software engineers developed several simulations tools, environments and frameworks for UA systems evaluation. In this context, this study highlights and identifies the most suitable simulators for UAVs flight. In this project, we have developed a drone simulator with the aim of simulating the flight of a drone fleet. With our simulation, we can generate the navigation file to help researchers and for analysis.