Control and perception techniques for aerial robotics

A Ollero, L Merino - Annual reviews in Control, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper review methods and technologies that have been applied in aerial robotics. The
paper presents several unmanned aerial vehicle platforms. Then summarizes different …

A novel framework on intelligent detection for module defects of PV plant combining the visible and infrared images

F Hong, J Song, H Meng, R Wang, F Fang, G Zhang - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) industry has achieved rapid development in recent years. However,
it is difficult and costly to detect the micro fault area in a large PV power plant due to …

Autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving platform using model predictive control

Y Feng, C Zhang, S Baek, S Rawashdeh… - Drones, 2018 - mdpi.com
Develo** methods for autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a
mobile platform has been an active area of research over the past decade, as it offers an …

Monocular vision-based real-time target recognition and tracking for autonomously landing an UAV in a cluttered shipboard environment

S Lin, MA Garratt, AJ Lambert - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
We present a vision system design for landing an unmanned aerial vehicle on a ship's flight
deck autonomously. The edge information from the international landing target is used to …

A visual/inertial integrated landing guidance method for UAV landing on the ship

Y Meng, W Wang, H Han, J Ban - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a visual/inertial integrated guidance method for UAV shipboard landing.
The airborne vision system is utilized to track infrared cooperated targets on the ship and …

Vision-based odometry and SLAM for medium and high altitude flying UAVs

F Caballero, L Merino, J Ferruz, A Ollero - Journal of Intelligent and …, 2009 - Springer
This paper proposes vision-based techniques for localizing an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) by means of an on-board camera. Only natural landmarks provided by a feature …

Visual–inertial navigation systems for aerial robotics: Sensor fusion and technology

F Santoso, MA Garratt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we comprehensively discuss the current progress of visual-inertial (VI)
navigation systems and sensor fusion research with a particular focus on small unmanned …

Autonomous landing of an UAV with a ground-based actuated infrared stereo vision system

W Kong, D Zhang, X Wang, Z ** unmanned aircraft system (UAS)
based on visual sensors. During the whole autonomous assignment, the landing procedure …

Research on computer vision-based for UAV autonomous landing on a ship

G Xu, Y Zhang, S Ji, Y Cheng, Y Tian - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel approach to UAV's automatic landing on the ship's deck is proposed.
We present the design of the cooperative object, and then begin our basic research on UAV …