This work establishes a novel framework for characterizing the open space of featureless dark tunnel environments for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) navigation tasks. The proposed method leverages the processing of a single camera to identify the deepest area in the scene in order to provide a collision free heading command for the MAV. In the sequel and inspired by haze removal approaches, the proposed novel idea is structured around a single image depth map estimation scheme, without metric depth measurements. The core contribution of the developed framework stems from the extraction of a 2D centroid in the image plane that characterizes the center of the tunnel’s darkest area, which is assumed to represent the open space, while the robustness of the proposed scheme is being examined under varying light/dusty conditions. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in challenging underground tunnel environments. ; ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-3-030-34994-3, 978-3-030-34995-0


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    Title :

    Open Space Attraction Based Navigation in Dark Tunnels for MAVs



    Publication date :

    2019-01-01



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629




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