Speed-Up Automatic Quadcopter Position Detection by Sensing Propeller Rotation
| Autor: | Kiyotaka Kato, Chinthaka Premachandra, Daiki Ueda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Quadcopter
Computer science Rotor (electric) business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Ellipse 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences law.invention law Feature (computer vision) Position (vector) Trajectory Robot Computer vision Artificial intelligence Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Instrumentation Rotation (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Sensors Journal. 19:2758-2766 |
| ISSN: | 2379-9153 1530-437X |
| DOI: | 10.1109/jsen.2018.2888909 |
| Popis: | Determining unit position is very important for the indoor autonomous aerial robots. In prior research, we used externally installed cameras to detect natural unit features to reduce the burden of measuring position, focusing on the elliptical trajectory of the rotating rotors while the unit was in flight as the natural feature of interest. Ellipse detection within images allows the calculation of unit position. An outstanding problem is that ellipse detection takes a considerable amount of time, and in some environments it is difficult to distinguish between the rotor and the background. In this paper, we investigate methods for addressing these problems, proposing a novel algorithm for fast ellipse detection. Furthermore, we record and visualize change in the rotating rotor pattern over time to enable detection against previously problematic backgrounds. For verification, we fly a general-purpose unit in a variety of environments and measure unit position. The results show that the proposed method reduces processing times for ellipse detection and that position can be measured without depending on the composition of flight environment, and thus that unit position detection is improved through the use of infrastructure cameras. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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