We describe a visually-guided demonstration model aircraft, the attitude of which is stabilized in yaw by means of a novel, non-emissive optical sensor having a small visual field. This aircraft incorporates a miniature scanning sensor consisting of two photoreceptors with adjacent visual axes, driving a local motion detector, which are made to perform a low-amplitude scanning at a varying angular speed. Under these conditions, the signal output from the motion detector varies gradually with the angular position of a contrasting object placed in its visual field, actually making the complete system a non-emissive optical 'position sensor'. After incorporating the sensor into a visuomotor feedback loop enhanced by an inertial sensor, we established that the 'sighted aircraft' can fixate and track a dark edge placed in its visual field, thus opening the way for the development of visually-guided system for controlling the attitude of micro-air vehicles.
Visual servo system based on a biologically inspired scanning sensor
1999
12 Seiten, 13 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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