Deep learning for vision-based micro aerial vehicle autonomous landing
dc.contributor.author | Yu, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Luo, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, X | |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, X | |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Luo, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Ren, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-26T12:58:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | Vision-based techniques are widely used in micro aerial vehicle autonomous landing systems. Existing vision-based autonomous landing schemes tend to detect specific landing landmarks by identifying their straightforward visual features such as shapes and colors. Though efficient to compute, these schemes only apply to landmarks with limited variability and require strict environmental conditions such as consistent lighting. To overcome these limitations, we propose an end-to-end landmark detection system based on a deep convolutional neural network, which not only easily scales up to a larger number of various landmarks but also exhibit robustness to different lighting conditions. Furthermore, we propose a separative implementation strategy which conducts convolutional neural network training and detection on different hardware platforms separately, i.e. a graphics processing unit work station and a micro aerial vehicle on-board system, subject to their specific implementation requirements. To evaluate the performance of our framework, we test it on synthesized scenarios and real-world videos captured by a quadrotor on-board camera. Experimental results validate that the proposed vision-based autonomous landing system is robust to landmark variability in different backgrounds and lighting situations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Society (Government) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Natural Science Foundation of China | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Qingdao Applied Fundamental Research | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10 (2), pp. 171 - 185 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1756829318757470 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | IE131036 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 61671481 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 61701541 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ZR2017QF003 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 16-5-1-11-jch | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 6161101383 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 15CX05042A | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 16CX05004B | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36070 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | (c) 2018 The authors. Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Micro aerial vehicle | en_GB |
dc.subject | vision-based autonomous landing | en_GB |
dc.subject | convolutional neural networks | en_GB |
dc.title | Deep learning for vision-based micro aerial vehicle autonomous landing | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-26T12:58:18Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1756-8293 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-01-11 | |
exeter.funder | ::Royal Society (Government) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-01-11 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-02-26T12:52:02Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-02-26T12:58:21Z | |
refterms.panel | B | en_GB |
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