Toward Visual Autonomous Ship Board Landing of a VTOL UAV Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper we tackle the problem of landing a helicopter autonomously on a ship deck, using as the main sensor, an on-board colour camera. To create a test-bed, we first adequately simulate the movement of a ship landing platform on the Sea, for different Sea States, for different ships, randomly and realistically enough. We use a commercial parallel robot to get this movement. Once we had this, we developed an accurate and robust computer vision system to measure the pose of the helipad with respect to the on-board camera. To deal with the noise and the possible fails of the computer vision, a state estimator was created. With all of this, we are now able to develop and test a controller that closes the loop and finish the autonomous landing task. 2013 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

published proceedings

  • 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (ICUAS)

author list (cited authors)

  • Luis Sanchez-Lopez, J., Saripalli, S., Campoy, P., Pestana, J., & Fu, C.

citation count

  • 29

complete list of authors

  • Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Jose||Saripalli, Srikanth||Campoy, Pascual||Pestana, Jesus||Fu, Changhong

publication date

  • May 2013