In this paper, an autonomous landing guidance strategy is proposed for quad-UAVs, including landing marker detection, altitude estimation, and adaptive landing commands generation. A double-layered nested marker is designed to ensure that the marker can be captured both in high and low altitudes. A deep learning-based marker detection method is designed where the intersection of union is replaced by the normalized Wasserstein distance in the computation of non-maximum suppression to improve the detection accuracy. The UAV altitude measured by inertial measurement unit is fused with vision-based altitude estimation data to improve the accuracy during the landing process. An image-based visual servoing method is designed to guide the UAV approach to the landing marker. Both simulation and flight experiments are conducted to verify the proposed strategy.
Autonomous Landing Guidance for Quad-UAVs Based on Visual Image and Altitude Estimation
2025
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