UAVs have been widely used in visual inspections of buildings, bridges, and other structures. In either outdoor autonomous or semi-autonomous flights missions strong GPS signal is vital for UAV to locate its own positions. However, strong GPS signal is not always available, and it can degrade or fully loss underneath large structures or close to power lines, which can cause serious control issues or even UAV crashes. Such limitations highly restricted the applications of UAV as a routine inspection tool in various domains. In this paper a vision-model-based real-time self-positioning method is proposed to support autonomous aerial inspection without the need of GPS support. Compared to other localization methods that requires additional onboard sensors, the proposed method uses a single camera to continuously estimate the inflight poses of UAV. Each step of the proposed method is discussed in detail, and its performance is tested through an indoor test case.


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    Title :

    Vision Model-Based Real-Time Localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Autonomous Structure Inspection under GPS-Denied Environment


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2019 ; 2019 ; Atlanta, Georgia



    Publication date :

    2019-06-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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