@inproceedings{57976e0fdfea4b52bc2c3df8c65e57a6,
title = "Visual based navigation for power line inspection by using virtual environments",
abstract = "Power line inspection is an important task for the maintenance of electrical infrastructure. UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicle) can be very useful in the inspection process because the high costs of obtaining images of power lines from different perspectives and the logistic problems of manned flights. The use of the power line as a reference for navigation can be difficult because the different backgrounds, we consider the use of the tower as a reference in order to improve the orientation of the UAV respect to the electrical grid. In this work we generate a process for navigation based in tower detection. The navigation is performed by using the information extracted from a frontal camera in a visual control scheme and validated in virtual environments.",
keywords = "UAV navigation, simulation, tower detection, visual control",
author = "Alexander Cer{\'o}n and Mondrag{\'o}n, \{Iv{\'a}n F.\} and Flavio Prieto",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE-IS\&T.; Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXXII: Algorithms and Techniques ; Conference date: 09-02-2015 Through 10-02-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2083478",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Juha Roning and David Casasent",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXXII",
address = "United States",
}