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Automatic landing method for fixed wing UAVs
Introduction
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Manual landing
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System Description
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• The fuselage houses the flight computer, IMU, battery and radio
receiver, also vehicle has a DC motor.
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Avionics hardware architecture
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Landing equipment
• An arresting device is needed.
• The vehicle would simply fly into the dome at low speed with
a reasonable incident angle.
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Vision Algorithms
The proposed vision algorithm consists of:
A color-based detection,
A moment-based detection, and
Visual servoing.
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Visual servoing:
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Sequence of images during landing to dome
Fig.1 Fig. 2
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Conclusion
• The domes distinctive color and shape provides a visual cue to
vision system without any mistakes.
• The vision algorithm detects the landing dome.
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References:
• www.wikipedia.org
• http://ieeeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=1057692
• www.springerlink.com/index/80660XH9678W
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• www.sciencedirect.com
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Thank you!
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