Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In today’s world, the applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems
are leaping by extending their scope from military applications on to commercial and
medical sectors as well. Owing to this commercialization, the need to append external
hardware with UAV systems becomes inevitable. This external hardware could aid in
enabling wireless data transfer between the UAV system and remote Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSN) using low powered architecture like Thread, BLE (Bluetooth Low
Energy). The data is being transmitted from the flight controller to the ground
control station using a MAVlink (Micro Air Vehicle Link) protocol. But this radio
transmission method is not secure, which may lead to data leakage problems. The
ideal aim of this research is to address the issues of integrating different hardware with
the flight controller of the UAV system using a light-weight protocol called UAVCAN
(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Controller Area Network). This would result in reduced
wiring and would harness the problem of integrating multiple systems to UAV. At
the same time, data security is addressed by deploying an encryption chip into the
UAV system to encrypt the data transfer using ECC (Elliptic curve cryptography)
and transmitting it to cloud platforms instead of radio transmission.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/19920 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Ravi, Niranjan |
| Contributors | El-Sharkawy, Mohamed, King, Brian, Rizkalla, Maher |
| Source Sets | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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