A method, system, and apparatus for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to autonomously reconstruct overflown terrain and detect safe landing sites. A UAV autonomously acquires on-board pose estimates from an on-board visual-inertial-range odometry method during flight. The on-board pose estimates are utilized as a pose prior and to regain metric scale during three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. The on-board pose estimates are corrected based on a bundle adjustment approach using previously acquired images. 3D reconstruction is performed based on multiple captured images taken from an on-board camera. Range data from the multiple captured images is fused into a multi-resolution height map. A safe landing site on the terrain is detected based on the multi-resolution height map.


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    Title :

    UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS) AUTONOMOUS TERRAIN MAPPING AND LANDING SITE DETECTION



    Publication date :

    2023-08-03


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06V / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL




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