Wedescribeanew,on-board,shortrangeperceptionsystem that enables micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) to detect, track, and follow or avoid nearby drones (within 2-20 meters) in GPS-denied environments. Each vehicle is able to sense its neighborhood and adapt its motion accordingly without use of centralized reasoning or inter-vehicle communication. To enable a lightweight, low power solution, on-board stereo cameras are used for detection and tracking with depth images, while a downward-looking camera and an inertial measurement unit are used to estimate the position of the observer without use of GPS. We illustrate the robustness and accuracy of this approach through real-time, outdoor leader-follower experiments with three quadrotors. Our experiments show that state-of-art trackers are far less robust in detection against cluttered background. This demonstrates that stereo vision is a highly effective approach to perception for safe navigation of multiple MAVs in close proximity.


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    Titel :

    Onboard Stereo Vision for Drone Pursuit or Sense and Avoid


    Beteiligte:
    Matthies, Larry (Autor:in) / Thakker, Rohan (Autor:in) / Cigla, Cevahir (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    18.06.2018


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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