GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VEHICLES.

The operation of autonomous vehicles of every type land, sea and air requires control and continues monitoring of sub systems parameters and mission parameters is very essential[1]. The monitoring of such vehicles is done using a RF Modem or Wireless LAN. The autonomous vehicles acquires and records the parameters of sensors which are required for navigation and control of the vehicle. The parameters as recorded by the system varies from system but some common parameters includes Position from the Global positioning system GPS, pose from the Attitude Heading Reference system (AHRS), the scientific data along with the health of the System. These parameters are usually updated on the base station which could be a mother-ship or Land. In this paper we describe the Graphical user Interface developed for the Autonomous Surface Vehicle and the communication protocol between the surface vehicle and the base station.