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Inertial optical flow for throw-and-go micro air vehicles

Weiss et al., 2015

Document ID
9738736053243945443
Author
Weiss S
Brockers R
Albrektsen S
Matthies L
Publication year
Publication venue
2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

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In this paper, we describe a novel method using only optical flow from a single camera and inertial information to quickly initialize, deploy, and autonomously stabilize an inherently unstable aerial vehicle. Our approach requires a minimal number of tracked features in only …
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Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
    • G01C21/00—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups
    • G01C21/10—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration
    • G01C21/12—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning
    • G01C21/16—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning by integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/10—Simultaneous control of position or course in three dimensions
    • G05D1/101—Simultaneous control of position or course in three dimensions specially adapted for aircraft
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/08—Control of attitude, i.e. control of roll, pitch, or yaw
    • G05D1/0808—Control of attitude, i.e. control of roll, pitch, or yaw specially adapted for aircraft
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/0011—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot associated with a remote control arrangement
    • G05D1/0044—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot associated with a remote control arrangement by providing the operator with a computer generated representation of the environment of the vehicle, e.g. virtual reality, maps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64C—AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
    • B64C2201/00—Unmanned aerial vehicles; Equipment therefor
    • B64C2201/10—Unmanned aerial vehicles; Equipment therefor characterised by the lift producing means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/04—Control of altitude or depth
    • G05D1/06—Rate of change of altitude or depth
    • G05D1/0607—Rate of change of altitude or depth specially adapted for aircraft
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64C—AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
    • B64C2201/00—Unmanned aerial vehicles; Equipment therefor
    • B64C2201/20—Methods for transport, or storage of unmanned aerial vehicles

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