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Extending Deep Neural Network Trail Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operation Within the Forest Canopy

verfasst von : Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson, Patrice Carbonneau, Toby P. Breckon

Erschienen in: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Autonomous flight within a forest canopy represents a key challenge for generalised scene understanding on-board a future Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms. Here we present an approach for automatic trail navigation within such an unstructured environment that successfully generalises across differing image resolutions - allowing UAV with varying sensor payload capabilities to operate equally in such challenging environmental conditions. Specifically, this work presents an optimised deep neural network architecture, capable of state-of-the-art performance across varying resolution aerial UAV imagery, that improves forest trail detection for UAV guidance even when using significantly low resolution images that are representative of low-cost search and rescue capable UAV platforms.

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Metadaten
Titel
Extending Deep Neural Network Trail Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operation Within the Forest Canopy
verfasst von
Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson
Patrice Carbonneau
Toby P. Breckon
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_13