Position estimation of tethered micro unmanned aerial vehicle by observing the slack tether

Author(s):  
Seiga Kiribayashi ◽  
Kaede Yakushigawa ◽  
Keiji Nagatani
Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Du ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Chaowen Xu ◽  
Ran Xiao ◽  
Changyin Sun

The question of how to estimate the state of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in real time in multi-environments remains a challenge. Although the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has been widely applied, drones cannot perform position estimation when a GNSS signal is not available or the GNSS is disturbed. In this paper, the problem of state estimation in multi-environments is solved by employing an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithm to fuse the data from multiple heterogeneous sensors (MHS), including an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a magnetometer, a barometer, a GNSS receiver, an optical flow sensor (OFS), Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), and an RGB-D camera. Finally, the robustness and effectiveness of the multi-sensor data fusion system based on the EKF algorithm are verified by field flights in unstructured, indoor, outdoor, and indoor and outdoor transition scenarios.


2014 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 602-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Ying Liu ◽  
Ping Ping Liu

Currently, there has been growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the landing. With the widespread use of the UAVs, a more precise estimation on pose and position in the process of landing is required to support the higher-level applications. In this paper, the estimation of pose and position based on the line segment detection (LSD) is proposed. By applying a vision camera, a landmark is detected using the effective LSD algorithm. Then a line-based vision model is built to calculate the pose and position of the UAV. Experimental results show that the state solutions of the proposed method are effective with different shape of landmarks, and the accuracy is minute-level in pose angle error and centimeter-level in position error.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342
Author(s):  
Hyung Jun Park ◽  
Seong Hee Cho ◽  
Kyung-Hwan Jang ◽  
Jin-Woon Seol ◽  
Byung-Gi Kwon ◽  
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2018 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Anton M. Mishchenko ◽  
Sergei S. Rachkovsky ◽  
Vladimir A. Smolin ◽  
Igor V . Yakimenko

Results of experimental studying radiation spatial structure of atmosphere background nonuniformities and of an unmanned aerial vehicle being the detection object are presented. The question on a possibility of its detection using optoelectronic systems against the background of a cloudy field in the near IR wavelength range is also considered.


Author(s):  
Amir Birjandi ◽  
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Valentin Guerry ◽  
Eric Bibeau ◽  
Hamidreza Bolandhemmat ◽  
...  

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