A vision based sense and avoid system for small unmanned helicopter

Yang Lyu, Quan Pan, Chunhui Zhao, Haifeng Zhu, Tongguo Tang, Yizhai Zhang

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Abstract

Sense and Avoid (SAA) has been identified as one of the crucial technologies for integrating UAV into civil airspace, and vision based SAA is regarded as a promising solution. In this paper we described our vision based SAA system consisted of onboard vision detection system and Groud Control Station (GCS) to fulfill the intruder detection and avoid maneuver control tasks. To realize the small intruder detection in collision scenario, we adopt a CMO filter based method for pre-processing as well as a HMM filter for target detection. The adopted algorithms are modified and immigrated on a high performance DM8168 onboard computer for efficiency consideration. Due to the depth missing problem of vision sensor, we developed a relative angle based avoidance strategy to perform the collision avoid of intruders. In the end, the proposed system is tested on real flight scenario to demonstrate its capability for small intruder collision avoid.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages586-592
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781479960101
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jul 2015
Event2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2015 - Denver, United States
Duration: 9 Jun 201512 Jun 2015

Publication series

Name2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2015

Conference

Conference2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period9/06/1512/06/15

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