In this paper we tackle the problem of landing a helicopter autonomously on a ship deck, using as the main sensor, an on-board colour camera. To create a test-bed, we first adequately simulate the movement of a ship landing platform on the Sea, for different Sea States, for different ships, randomly and realistically enough. We use a commercial parallel robot to get this movement. Once we had this, we developed an accurate and robust computer vision system to measure the pose of the helipad with respect to the on-board camera. To deal with the noise and the possible fails of the computer vision, a state estimator was created. With all of this, we are now able to develop and test a controller that closes the loop and finish the autonomous landing task.


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    Title :

    Toward visual autonomous ship board landing of a VTOL UAV




    Publication date :

    2013-05-01


    Size :

    430995 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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