A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Valavanis, Kimon P.; Kontitsis, Michail

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6114-1_2

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“…This massive interest for UAVs has led to the development of various aircraft types in many shapes and sizes to operate in different tasks [5]. Within the scope of this article 4 categories of UAVs are referred, namely single rotor helicopters, multi rotor-crafts, fixed wing planes and hybrid combinations.…”

Section: Uav Typesmentioning

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Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends

Kanellakis

Nikolakopoulos

2017

J Intell Robot Syst

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During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge today is the development of autonomously operating aerial agents capable of completing missions independently of human interaction. To this extent, visual sensing techniques have been integrated in the control pipeline of the UAVs in order to enhance their navigation and guidance skills. The aim of this article is to present a comprehensive literature review on vision based applications for UAVs focusing mainly on current developments and trends. These applications are sorted in different categories according to the research topics among various research groups. More specifically vision based position-attitude control, pose estimation and mapping, obstacle detection as well as target tracking are the identified components towards autonomous agents. Aerial platforms could reach greater level of autonomy by integrating all these technologies onboard. Additionally, throughout this article the concept of fusion multiple sensors is highlighted, while an overview on the challenges C. Kanellakis ( ) · G. Nikolakopoulos Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden e-mail: christoforos.kanellakis@ltu.se G. Nikolakopoulos e-mail: geonik@ltu.se addressed and future trends in autonomous agent development will be also provided.

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Section: Uav Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends

Kanellakis

Nikolakopoulos

2017

J Intell Robot Syst

295

120

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“…The Department of Defense has defined 10 distinct levels of automation. 10 Peter Singer describes seven distinct levels of automation that include "direct human operation", "human assisted", "fully autonomous", and "adaptive." 11 Thus a remotely piloted vehicle demonstrates the lowest level of autonomy as most or all of its "processing" is done by its human controller.…”

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Should We Turn the Robots Loose?

Hilliker¹

2010

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“…and civil (security, rescue, cartography, etc.). They come in all shapes and sizes, from automatized real scale plane to micro coaxial rotors UAV [1,2].…”

Section: Uavmentioning

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Faucon noir UAV project development of a set of tools for managing, visualizing and mosaicing centimetric UAV images

Gademer¹,

Mainfroy²,

Beaudoin³

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

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Eager for greater flexibility, and lesser costs, we are often tempted to acquire high-resolution data with home-made acquisition systems. However, this approach cannot benefit from usual tools to tackle problems such as image navigation within a large flow of very high resolution pictures, data completion and image mosaicing of small patches of the overflown area. This article presents the tools suite our laboratory has developed. In our case, we have developed homemade quad-rotor for low altitude imagery, equipped with up to three compact cameras on a stabilized platform. This configuration represents 2800 images at a ground resolution of 2 to 5 centimeters for each 20 minute flight. In order to take advantage of this flow of data, we needed a relevant set of tools for optimal acquisition and exploitation of the images.

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A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Cited by 33 publications

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Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends

Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends

Should We Turn the Robots Loose?

Faucon noir UAV project development of a set of tools for managing, visualizing and mosaicing centimetric UAV images

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