The automation of unmanned aerial vehicles is an active research area. Among different techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) automation, obstacle detection is gaining attention to ensure UAV safety flights. This paper presents an algorithm that can be embedded on an UAV to detect forward obstacles. This algorithm is based on a fast and accurate object detection model combining CenterNet and MobileNetV2. This model is pre-trained on the Microsoft COCO 2017 dataset and allowed us to identify obstacle zone in images from the UAV’s front camera. After obstacle detection, this algorithm proposes new directions to be followed by the UAV. These directions are left, right, or up to avoid obstacles. The proposed algorithm detects obstacles and proposes new directions to avoid obstacles by only using a frontal camera. It is sized to be embedded on Raspberry Pi 4b and runs in about 800 ms. It may be combined with the UAV’s coordinates and mission path to regenerate a new mission path in an unknown environment.


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    Title :

    Forward Obstacle Detection by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles


    Additional title:

    Lect.Notes Social.Inform.



    Conference:

    Pan-African Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems Conference ; 2022 ; Dakar, Senegal November 02, 2022 - November 04, 2022



    Publication date :

    2023-02-21


    Size :

    14 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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