A Web-oriented Architecture for Deploying Multiple Unmanned Vehicles as a Service

Abstract

Providing a robotic-assisted service in scenarios involving multiple Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) in possible beyond-visual-Line-Of-Sight (LoS) operations, safety and security are critical concerns. We develop a web-oriented, human-in-the-loop infrastructure to explore how the service provider can secure their system, enforce instant access control over dynamic operator-robot connections, and ensure the integrity, availability, and traceability of communicated data. Our proposed minimal viable solution requires an authentication server to verify user identity, a back server with a database to handle user requests and state-transition events, and a RabbitMQ (RMQ) server to trace the origin of data.

Keywords

• unmanned vehicles (uvs)
• web-oriented architecture
• multiple unmanned vehicles
• environmental shipping monitoring center (esmc)
• robot operating system (ros)
• risk-aware autonomous port inspection drone (rapid)
• transport layer security (tls)
• datagram transport layer security (dtls)