V.M. Grinyak¹, K.S. Shutov², A.S. Devyatisilnyi³, A.V. Artemyev⁴

¹Vladivostok State University (VVSU) (Vladivostok, Russia)

²Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) (Vladivostok, Russia)

³Institute of Automation and Control Processes (IACP) FEBRAS (Vladivostok, Russia)

⁴Maritime State University (MSU) named after admiral G.I. Nevelskoy (Vladivostok, Russia)

¹victor.grinyak@gmail.com, ²con.shutoff@yandex.ru, ³devyatis@iacp.dvo.ru, ⁴artemyev@msun.ru

The article is devoted to the task of creating a software system for controlling an unmanned device. Existing drone control systems often face restrictions on changing their functionality. To load new control algorithms, the device must be returned to base, stopped and turned off, and reprogrammed. This significantly narrows the capabilities of the drone and the range of tasks it solves.

Aim is to develop a software control system for an unmanned device that enables real-time modification of its control algorithms, including remote updates, during the operation of the device. The tool for implementing such a control system is a specially developed software platform that can be configured for a specific drone model, its peripherals and tasks to be solved.

The paper proposes a software and architectural solution for a drone control system, including subsystems for generating control commands, executing control commands, linking software and hardware components, and configuring. The composition and functionality of the system is determined by the configuration file, and a special language has been developed to represent the configuration. Several examples of configuring a system using this language are considered. The results of full-scale tests of a drone with such a control system are presented. The developed software platform can be used to create control systems for various types of unmanned devices.

Grinyak V.M., Shutov K.S., Devyatisilnyi A.S., Artemyev A.V. Configurable software platform for unmanned vehicles control systems development. Information-measuring and Control Systems. 2026. V. 24. № 1. P. 43−55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18127/j20700814-202601-05 (in Russian)

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