  This video shows a brief overview over Neptus, a command and control
infrastructure for heterogeneous teams of autonomous vehicles.
Having different types of vehicles at our laboratory and from our
partners, there was an increasing need to create a common
infrastructure to all these systems. Additionally, a tool to support
the entire mission life cycle (Planning, Execution, Review and
Dissemination) was lacking.

  Neptus was created to provide vehicle independence and seamless inter-
systems communications. Currently, Neptus has been already tested
with Remotely Operated Vehicles, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,
Unmanned Air Vehicles, Autonomous Surface Vehicles and Wireless
Sensor Networks. Some of these systems were operated simultaneously
by various operating consoles that were sharing the same
communication infrastructure. The received data was being relayed to
a web server that allowed for the real-time mission following by
using a common web browser.