TY - GEN
T1 - 3D object following based on visual information for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
AU - Mondragón, Iván F.
AU - Campoy, Pascual
AU - Olivares-Mendez, Miguel A.
AU - Martinez, Carol
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article presents a novel system and a control strategy for visual following of a 3D moving object by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV. The presented strategy is based only on the visual information given by an adaptive tracking method based on the color information, which jointly with the dynamics of a camera fixed to a rotary wind UAV are used to develop an Image-based visual servoing IBVS system. This system is focused on continuously following a 3D moving target object, maintaining it with a fixed distance and centered on the image plane. The algorithm is validated on real flights on outdoors scenarios, showing the robustness of the proposed systems agains winds perturbations, illumination and weather changes among others. The obtained results indicate that the proposed algorithms is suitable for complex controls task, such object following and pursuit, flying in formation, as well as their use for indoor navigation
AB - This article presents a novel system and a control strategy for visual following of a 3D moving object by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV. The presented strategy is based only on the visual information given by an adaptive tracking method based on the color information, which jointly with the dynamics of a camera fixed to a rotary wind UAV are used to develop an Image-based visual servoing IBVS system. This system is focused on continuously following a 3D moving target object, maintaining it with a fixed distance and centered on the image plane. The algorithm is validated on real flights on outdoors scenarios, showing the robustness of the proposed systems agains winds perturbations, illumination and weather changes among others. The obtained results indicate that the proposed algorithms is suitable for complex controls task, such object following and pursuit, flying in formation, as well as their use for indoor navigation
KW - Object Following.
KW - UAV
KW - Visual Servoing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83455200262&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LARC.2011.6086794
DO - 10.1109/LARC.2011.6086794
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83455200262
SN - 9781457716904
T3 - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011
Y2 - 1 October 2011 through 4 October 2011
ER -