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: Received: 30 November 2021 / Approved: 1 December 2021 / Online: 1 December 2021 (11:58:13 CET)
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Chang, C.; Lo, L.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.; Wen, C.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual-inertial Approach. Preprints2021, 2021120012 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202112.0012.v1).
Chang, C.; Lo, L.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.; Wen, C.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual-inertial Approach. Preprints 2021, 2021120012 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202112.0012.v1).
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Chang, C.; Lo, L.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.; Wen, C.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual-inertial Approach. Preprints2021, 2021120012 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202112.0012.v1).
Chang, C.; Lo, L.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.; Wen, C.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual-inertial Approach. Preprints 2021, 2021120012 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202112.0012.v1).
Abstract
This work aims to develop an autonomous system for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to land on a moving platform such as the automobile or marine vessels, providing a promising solution for a long-endurance flight operation, a large mission coverage range, and a convenient recharging ground station. Different from most state-of-the-art UAV landing frameworks which rely on UAV’s onboard computers and sensors, the proposed system fully depends on the computation unit situated on the ground vehicle/marine vessel to serve as a landing guidance system. Such novel configuration can therefore lighten the burden of the UAV and computation power on the ground vehicle/marine vessel could be enhanced. In particular, we exploit a sensor fusion-based algorithm for the guidance system to perform UAV localization, whilst a control method based upon trajectory optimization is integrated. Indoor and outdoor experiments are conducted and the result shows that a precise autonomous landing on a 43 X 43 cm platform could be performed.
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