This project aims to develop a fully functional mission module that can be mounted on a virtual unmanned ground vehicle for simulating ISR missions. The module mimicks functionalities of a real life mission module and supports a variety of sensors, actuators and features which can be remotely controlled by a command and control application. Sensors/actuators currently available include

• Extendable mast
• Electro Optic camera with RTSP feed of the simulated virtual environment
• Laser Range Finder (LRF)

Checkout the demo video at youtube by clicking on the following image

Ensure following exists on your environment, this project was developed using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Assuming you already have ros and gazebo setup, begin by cloning this repository into a new directory

Setup workspace

mkdir -p surv/src && cd surv
catkin_make
source devel/setup.bash

Install dependencies

pip3 install stanag4586edav1
pip3 install stanag4586vsm

Checkout project and build

cd src
git clone https://github.com/faisalthaheem/surveillance-simulator
pushd
catkin_make
popd
./run-gazebo.sh

On first run it will take some time for the models to be downloaded from internet, subsequent runs should be faster.

To configure the RTSP streaming, you must set the machine's reachable ip address in the file launch/gazebo.launch - look for the following code block and update

<env name="EXTERNAL_RTSP_IP_ADDRESS" value="10.10.20.102" />