Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Autonomous landing on the deck of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is still a major challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a fiducial marker is located on the platform so as to facilitate the task since it is possible to retrieve its six-degrees of freedom relative-pose in an...

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Main Authors: Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning, Robert Sutton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Drones
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/2/2/15