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Author: Iryna Borshchova Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A hybrid-like (continuous and discrete-event) approach to controlling a small multi-rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS) while landing on a moving platform is described. The landing scheme is based on positioning visual markers on a landing platform in a detectable pattern. After the onboard camera detects the object pattern, the inner control algorithm sends visual-based servo-commands to align the multi-rotor with the targets. This method is less computationally complex as it uses color-based object detection applied to a geometric pattern instead of feature tracking algorithms, and has the advantage of not requiring the distance to the objects to be calculated. The continuous approach accounts for the UAV and the platform rolling/pitching/yawing, which is essential for a real-time landing on a moving target such as a ship. A discrete-event supervisor working in parallel with the inner controller is designed to assist the automatic landing of a multi-rotor UAV on a moving target. This supervisory control strategy allows the pilot and crew to make time-critical decisions when exceptions, such as losing targets from the field of view, occur. The developed supervisor improves the low-level vision-based auto-landing system and high-level human-machine interface. The proposed hybrid-like approach was tested in simulation using a quadcopter model in Virtual Robotics Experimentation Platform (V-REP) working in parallel with Robot Operating System (ROS). Finally, this method was validated in a series of real-time experiments with indoor and outdoor quadcopters landing on both static and moving platforms. The developed prototype system has demonstrated the capability of landing within 25 cm of the desired point of touchdown. This auto-landing system is small (100 x 100 mm), light-weight (100 g), and consumes little power (under 2 W).
Author: Iryna Borshchova Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
A hybrid-like (continuous and discrete-event) approach to controlling a small multi-rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS) while landing on a moving platform is described. The landing scheme is based on positioning visual markers on a landing platform in a detectable pattern. After the onboard camera detects the object pattern, the inner control algorithm sends visual-based servo-commands to align the multi-rotor with the targets. This method is less computationally complex as it uses color-based object detection applied to a geometric pattern instead of feature tracking algorithms, and has the advantage of not requiring the distance to the objects to be calculated. The continuous approach accounts for the UAV and the platform rolling/pitching/yawing, which is essential for a real-time landing on a moving target such as a ship. A discrete-event supervisor working in parallel with the inner controller is designed to assist the automatic landing of a multi-rotor UAV on a moving target. This supervisory control strategy allows the pilot and crew to make time-critical decisions when exceptions, such as losing targets from the field of view, occur. The developed supervisor improves the low-level vision-based auto-landing system and high-level human-machine interface. The proposed hybrid-like approach was tested in simulation using a quadcopter model in Virtual Robotics Experimentation Platform (V-REP) working in parallel with Robot Operating System (ROS). Finally, this method was validated in a series of real-time experiments with indoor and outdoor quadcopters landing on both static and moving platforms. The developed prototype system has demonstrated the capability of landing within 25 cm of the desired point of touchdown. This auto-landing system is small (100 x 100 mm), light-weight (100 g), and consumes little power (under 2 W).
Author: Paul A. Ghyzel Publisher: ISBN: 9781423533214 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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The role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for modern military operations is expected to expand in the 21st Century, including increased deployment of UAVs from Navy ships at sea. Autonomous operation of UAVs from ships at sea requires the UAV to land on a moving ship using only passive sensors installed in the UAV. This thesis investigates the feasibility of using passive vision sensors installed in the UAV to estimate the UAV position relative to the moving platform. A navigation algorithm based on photogrammetry and perspective estimation is presented for numerically determining the relative position and orientation of an aircraft with respect to a ship that possesses three visibly significant points with known separation distances. Original image processing algorithms that reliably locate visually significant features in monochrome images are developed. Monochrome video imagery collected during flight test with an infrared video camera mounted in the nose of a UAV during actual landing approaches is presented. The navigation and image processing algorithms are combined to reduce the flight test images into vehicle position estimates. These position estimates are compared to truth data to demonstrate the feasibility of passive, vision-based sensors for aircraft navigation. Conclusions are drawn, and recommendations for further study are presented.
Author: Joshua Hintze Publisher: ISBN: Category : Computer vision Languages : en Pages : 59
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Landing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a non-trivial problem. Removing the ability to cooperate with the landing site further increases the complexity. This thesis develops a multi-stage process that allows a UAV to locate the safest landing site, and then land without a georeference. Machine vision is the vehicle sensor used to locate potential landing hazards and generate an estimated UAV position. A description of the algorithms, along with validation results, are presented. The thesis shows that software-simulated landing performs adequately, and that future hardware integration looks promising.
Author: Jordan Ross Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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There is a desire among researchers, governments, corporations and the public to learn more about our environment. To learn how it is changing, how it can be more efficiently used, interacted with, protected and understood. Some of these environments are also some of the harshest, meaning any tool that can help mitigate risks, decrease costs and maximize opportunities should be considered, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In order to fully unlock the potential of these tools some infrastructure is lacking, mainly their recovery at sea. Current technologies focus on vision-based systems and very few end-to-end autonomous ship based algorithms have been demonstrated. Most current technologies also require very calm sea states. Here, a novel autonomous landing technique is presented. The algorithm uses acoustic positioning to allow for landings in a wider breadth of conditions and reduces the reliance on specially designed landing targets. It also features a potential fields path planner to adapt for ship motion and provide some obstacle avoidance and natural biasing away from the heaving deck. The autonomy uses a sea state predictor to compensate for harsher sea conditions and ship motion, allowing the UAV to look for appropriate landing windows in higher sea states. Autonomous landings are demonstrated in simulation and in a lab setting for sea conditions up to, and including, sea state 5. The ship motions in these sea states are defined using real sea trials data from the decommissioned Annapolis-class destroyer HMCS Nipigon.
Author: Aleksander Nawrat Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319003690 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 348
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This monograph is motivated by a significant number of vision based algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that were developed during research and development projects. Vision information is utilized in various applications like visual surveillance, aim systems, recognition systems, collision-avoidance systems and navigation. This book presents practical applications, examples and recent challenges in these mentioned application fields. The aim of the book is to create a valuable source of information for researchers and constructors of solutions utilizing vision from UAV. Scientists, researchers and graduate students involved in computer vision, image processing, data fusion, control algorithms, mechanics, data mining, navigation and IC can find many valuable, useful and practical suggestions and solutions. The latest challenges for vision based systems are also presented.
Author: Dale D. Rowley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drone aircraft Languages : en Pages : 129
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Landing a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (RUAV) without human supervision is a capability that would significantly broaden the usefulness of UAVs. The benefits are even greater if the functionality is expanded to involve landing sites with unknown terrain and a lack of GPS or other positioning aids. Examples of these types of non-cooperative environments could range from remote mountainous regions to an urban building rooftop or a cluttered parking lot.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 9
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In this paper, a strategy for an autonomous landing maneuver for an under-actuated, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using position information obtained from a single monocular on-board camera is presented. Although the UAV is underactuated in translational control inputs (i.e., a lift force can only be produced), the proposed controller is shown to achieve globally uniform ultimate boundedness (GUUB) in position regulation error during the landing approach. The proposed vision-based control algorithm is built upon homography-based techniques and Lyapunov design methods.
Author: Yang Liu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drone aircraft Languages : en Pages : 19
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"The agility and aerial view of drones can bring huge benefits to military, industrial and commercial fields. In recent years, huge improvements have been made in drone navigation technology. However, little effort has been put in drone navigation at night. This thesis is a cornerstone towards autonomous navigation for quadrotors at night. In the first part of the thesis, an vision-based autonomous landing program is implemented. It allows drones to land on a movable charging platform for longer battery life. This process provides a reliable solution with small error. It can also be transferred from grayscale camera to thermal camera in our future research, making long term autonomous task possible under poor light conditions. In the second part of this thesis, an optical flow based trajectory estimation program is implemented on thermal camera. This method can stablize a drone's position with more accuracy than GPS can in dark environment"--Author's abstract.
Author: Luis Rodolfo García Carrillo Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 144714399X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 191
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Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors to localize and guide the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle relative to its immediate environment. The history, classification and applications of UAVs are introduced, followed by a description of modelling techniques for quad-rotors and the experimental platform itself. A control strategy for the improvement of attitude stabilization in quad-rotors is then proposed and tested in real-time experiments. The strategy, based on the use low-cost components and with experimentally-established robustness, avoids drift in the UAV’s angular position by the addition of an internal control loop to each electronic speed controller ensuring that, during hovering flight, all four motors turn at almost the same speed. The quad-rotor’s Euler angles being very close to the origin, other sensors like GPS or image-sensing equipment can be incorporated to perform autonomous positioning or trajectory-tracking tasks. Two vision-based strategies, each designed to deal with a specific kind of mission, are introduced and separately tested. The first stabilizes the quad-rotor over a landing pad on the ground; it extracts the 3-dimensional position using homography estimation and derives translational velocity by optical flow calculation. The second combines colour-extraction and line-detection algorithms to control the quad-rotor’s 3-dimensional position and achieves forward velocity regulation during a road-following task. In order to estimate the translational-dynamical characteristics of the quad-rotor (relative position and translational velocity) as they evolve within a building or other unstructured, GPS-deprived environment, imaging, inertial and altitude sensors are combined in a state observer. The text give the reader a current view of the problems encountered in UAV control, specifically those relating to quad-rotor flying machines and it will interest researchers and graduate students working in that field. The vision-based control strategies presented help the reader to a better understanding of how an imaging system can be used to obtain the information required for performance of the hovering and navigation tasks ubiquitous in rotored UAV operation.
Author: Kurtis W. Schram Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drone aircraft Languages : en Pages : 168
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The quadrotor used is a common low cost platform with a large open source community. Firstly, non-linear estimation and control techniques are implemented for the attitude stabilization using low-cost sensors and limited computational power. Some methods for the system parameters estimation are presented and some challenges related to the implementation are discussed. Despite the ability of the attitude controller to stabilize the orientation of the quadrotor, hovering and landing precisely over a specific area is not possible without a position stabilization scheme. In applications where GPS signals are not available and the hovering target is a priori unknown, it is common to rely on visual information. In this context, this thesis aims for the development of an efficient optical-flow-based position stabilization and autonomous landing scheme for the quadrotor UAV."-- from abstract.
Author: Iryna Borshchova
Author: Iryna Borshchova
Author: Paul A. Ghyzel
Author: Joshua Hintze
Author: Jordan Ross
Author: Aleksander Nawrat
Author: Dale D. Rowley
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Author: Yang Liu
Author: Luis Rodolfo García Carrillo
Author: Kurtis W. Schram