Aracnocóptero: An Unmanned Aerial VTOL Multi-rotor for Remote Monitoring and Surveillance

The Aracnocóptero is an aerial platform designed to capture photographs and images in multiple formats, and to carry sensors and scientific-technical measuring equipment. It is a collapsible, lightweight, multi-rotor, vertical take-off UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) aircraft made of maximum resistance aerospace materials. It includes a communications centre and a station base, which are transportable, lightweight and compact. The Aracnocóptero platform control and guidance software is composed of an agent-based system specialized in gathering and processing different types of information. The multi-agent system (MAS) that controls the Aracnocóptero uses different types of interfaces for its various applications and for the reconstruction of telemetric values obtained from the UAV. Due to its adaptability, the Aracnocóptero platform can be extended to a number of uses.