Adaptive pattern for autonomous UAV guidance

Chen-Ko Sung; Florian Segor

doi:10.1117/12.2024268

26 September 2013 Adaptive pattern for autonomous UAV guidance

Chen-Ko Sung, Florian Segor

Proceedings Volume 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI; 88560P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024268
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The research done at the Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe within the AMFIS project is focusing on a mobile system to support rescue forces in accidents or disasters. The system consists of a ground control station which has the capability to communicate with a large number of heterogeneous sensors and sensor carriers and provides several open interfaces to allow easy integration of additional sensors into the system. Within this research we focus mainly on UAV such as VTOL (Vertical takeoff and Landing) systems because of their ease of use and their high maneuverability. To increase the positioning capability of the UAV, different onboard processing chains of image exploitation for real time detection of patterns on the ground and the interfacing technology for controlling the UAV from the payload during flight were examined. The earlier proposed static ground pattern was extended by an adaptive component which admits an additional visual communication channel to the aircraft. For this purpose different components were conceived to transfer additive information using changeable patterns on the ground. The adaptive ground pattern and their application suitability had to be tested under external influence. Beside the adaptive ground pattern, the onboard process chains and the adaptations to the demands of changing patterns are introduced in this paper. The tracking of the guiding points, the UAV navigation and the conversion of the guiding point positions from the images to real world co-ordinates in video sequences, as well as use limits and the possibilities of an adaptable pattern are examined.

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Chen-Ko Sung and Florian Segor "Adaptive pattern for autonomous UAV guidance", Proc. SPIE 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, 88560P (26 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024268

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Unmanned aerial vehicles

Sensors

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