This paper proposes an online predictive control method for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a pan-tilt camera in target tracking. It aims to achieve long-term tracking while concurrently maintaining the target near the image center. Particularly, this work takes the UAV and pan-tilt camera as an overall system and deals with the target tracking problem via joint optimization, so that the tracking ability of the UAV can be improved. The image captured by the pan-tilt camera is the unique input associated with the target, and model predictive control (MPC) is used to solve the optimization problem with constraints that cannot be performed by the classic image-based visual servoing (IBVS). In addition to the dynamic constraint of the UAV, the perception constraint of the camera is also taken into consideration, which is described by the maximum distance between the target and the camera. The accurate detection of the target depends on the amount of its feature information contained in the image, which is highly related to the relative distance between the target and the camera. Moreover, considering the real-time requirements of practical applications, an MPC strategy based on soft constraints and a warm start is presented. Furthermore, a switching-based approach is proposed to return the target back to the perception range quickly once it exceeds the range, and the exponential asymptotic stability of the switched controller is proven as well. Both numerical and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method compared with the existing method.


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    Titel :

    Online Predictive Visual Servo Control for Constrained Target Tracking of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    Lingjie Yang (Autor:in) / Xiangke Wang (Autor:in) / Yu Zhou (Autor:in) / Zhihong Liu (Autor:in) / Lincheng Shen (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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