The purpose of this project is to develop and integrate a prototype multicopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with a vision-based algorithm to enable a relative position hold capability. The resulting solution will enable automatic operation of a UAV with respect to another visually detectable object without use of GPS receiver or when GPS signal is not available. Navigating a robot in a GPS-denied environment is a desired feature in many applications, including Maritime Interdiction Operations. While automatically maintaining its relative position with respect to a given target, the onboard system will also provide video coverage of “blind spots” and network relay between the boarding team and ship.


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    Title :

    Vision-Based Position Estimation Utilizing an Extended Kalman Filter


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2016


    Size :

    69 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English