• DocumentCode
    1956007
  • Title

    A Vision-Based Ground Target Tracking System for a Small-Scale Autonomous Helicopter

  • Author

    Deng, Haibo ; Zhao, Xiaoguang ; How, Z.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Key Lab. of Complex Syst. & Intell. Sci., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-23 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    739
  • Lastpage
    743
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present a visual system to drive an autonomous small-scale helicopter to track a ground target. The vision system is monocular, and the on-board camera is fixed. Since the time-varying attitude of helicopter can bring trouble to vision algorithm design, we developed an attitude compensation algorithm. The real flight experiments show that the vision system can perform in real-time, and track a ground target successfully.
  • Keywords
    helicopters; image sensors; mobile robots; robot vision; target tracking; attitude compensation algorithm; on-board camera; small-scale autonomous helicopter; vision-based ground target tracking system; visual system; Cameras; Control systems; Helicopters; Machine vision; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Target tracking; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics; Velocity control; Video surveillance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image and Graphics, 2009. ICIG '09. Fifth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Xi´an, Shanxi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5237-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIG.2009.132
  • Filename
    5437931