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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Improved Tau-Guidance and Vision-Aided Navigation for Robust Autonomous Landing of UAVs

verfasst von : Amedeo Rodi Vetrella, Inkyu Sa, Marija Popović, Raghav Khanna, Juan Nieto, Giancarmine Fasano, Domenico Accardo, Roland Siegwart

Erschienen in: Field and Service Robotics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, flexible trajectory generation algorithms are required to enable high levels of autonomy for critical mission phases, such as take-off, area coverage, and landing. In this paper, we present a guidance approach which uses the improved intrinsic tau guidance theory to create spatio-temporal 4-D trajectories for a desired time-to-contact with a landing platform tracked by a visual sensor. This allows us to perform maneuvers with tunable trajectory profiles, while catering for static or non-static starting and terminating motion states. We validate our method in both simulations and real platform experiments by using rotary-wing UAVs to land on static platforms. Results show that our method achieves smooth landings within 10 cm accuracy, with easily adjustable trajectory parameters.

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Metadaten
Titel
Improved Tau-Guidance and Vision-Aided Navigation for Robust Autonomous Landing of UAVs
verfasst von
Amedeo Rodi Vetrella
Inkyu Sa
Marija Popović
Raghav Khanna
Juan Nieto
Giancarmine Fasano
Domenico Accardo
Roland Siegwart
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67361-5_8

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