Fully autonomous micro air vehicle flight and landing on a moving target using visual–inertial estimation and model-predictive control
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) held in spring 2017 was a very successful competition well attended by teams from all over the world. One of the challenges (Challenge 1) required an aerial robot to detect, follow, and land on a moving target in a fully autonomous fashion. In this paper, we present the hardware components of the micro air vehicle (MAV) we built with off the self components alongside the designed algorithms that were developed for the purposes of the competition. We tackle the challenge of landing on a moving target by adopting a generic approach, rather than following one that is tailored to the MBZIRC Challenge 1 setup, enabling easy adaptation to a wider range of applications and targets, even indoors, since we do not rely on availability of global positioning system. We evaluate our system in an uncontrolled outdoor environment where our MAV successfully and consistently lands on a target moving at a speed of up to 5.0 m/s.
Date Issued
2019-01-01
Date Acceptance
2018-07-12
Citation
Journal of Field Robotics, 2019, 36 (1), pp.49-77
ISSN
1556-4959
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
49
End Page
77
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Field Robotics
Volume
36
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Owner. This is the accepted version of the following article: Tzoumanikas D, Li W, Grimm M, Zhang K, Kovac M, Leutenegger S. Fully autonomous micro air vehicle flight and landing on a moving target using visual–inertial estimation and model‐predictive control. J Field Robotics. 2018;1–29., which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rob.21821
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/N018494/1
Subjects
0801 Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-10-27