A Vision-Based Navigation System for Perching Aircraft
| Autor: | Wu Yanhua, D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao |
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| Přispěvatelé: | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Vision based Computer science Mechanical Engineering Navigation system 02 engineering and technology Tracking (particle physics) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Extended Kalman filter Noise 020901 industrial engineering & automation Light source Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Control theory Vision-based Navigation Trajectory Aeronautical engineering [Engineering] Aircraft Perching Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. 95:555-566 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0409 0921-0296 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10846-018-0807-7 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the investigation of the use of position-sensing diode (PSD) - a light source direction sensor - for designing a vision-based navigation system for a perching aircraft. Aircraft perching maneuvers mimic bird’s landing by climbing for touching down with low velocity or negligible impact. They are optimized to reduce their spatial requirements, like altitude gain or trajectory length. Due to disturbances and uncertainties, real-time perching is realized by tracking the optimal trajectories. As the performance of the controllers depends on the accuracy of estimated aircraft state, the use of PSD measurements as observations in the state estimation model is proposed to achieve precise landing. The performance and the suitability of this navigation system are investigated through numerical simulations. An optimal perching trajectory is computed by minimizing the trajectory length. Accelerations, angular-rates and PSD readings are determined from this trajectory and then added with experimentally obtained noise to create simulated sensor measurements. The initial state of the optimal perching trajectory is perturbed, and by assuming zero biases, extended Kalman filter is implemented for aircraft state estimation. It is shown that the errors between estimated and actual aircraft states reduce along the trajectory, validating the proposed navigation system. Published version |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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