Visual servo control of unmanned aerial vehicles: An object tracking-based approach

  • Jia Yang
  • , Xing Huo
  • , Bing Xiao
  • , Zhenzhou Fu
  • , Chaofan Wu
  • , Yiran Wei

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Abstract

This paper investigates the object following control problem for a low-cost quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). An object tracking-based approach is proposed. In this approach, the techniques of object tracking and visual servo control are efficiently combined to achieve the control objectives. To eliminate the impact of tracking target rotation during tracking model, an online learning method is proposed by learning the object size over different view at the desired distance. On the basis of this, an image-based visual servo control law is then designed to ensure that the quadrotor can track the moving target in real-time and keep the desired distance away from the object. The applicability of the proposed scheme is verified by flight experiments. It is demonstrated that the proposed algorithm is robust to rotary movement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3524-3528
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509046560
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Jul 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 28 May 201730 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017

Conference

Conference29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period28/05/1730/05/17

Keywords

  • Object Following Control
  • Online Learning
  • Visual Servo Control
  • Visual Tracking

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