Chang, C.-W.; Lo, L.-Y.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.-S.; Wen, C.-Y.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach. Sensors 2022, 22, 404, doi:10.3390/s22010404.
Chang, C.-W.; Lo, L.-Y.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.-S.; Wen, C.-Y.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach. Sensors 2022, 22, 404, doi:10.3390/s22010404.
Chang, C.-W.; Lo, L.-Y.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.-S.; Wen, C.-Y.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach. Sensors 2022, 22, 404, doi:10.3390/s22010404.
Chang, C.-W.; Lo, L.-Y.; Cheung, H.C.; Feng, Y.; Yang, A.-S.; Wen, C.-Y.; Zhou, W. Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach. Sensors 2022, 22, 404, doi:10.3390/s22010404.
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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