Computer vision in autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles—a systematic mapping study

LM Belmonte, R Morales, A Fernández-Caballero - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Personal assistant robots provide novel technological solutions in order to monitor people's
activities, helping them in their daily lives. In this sense, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Robust nonlinear model predictive control based visual servoing of quadrotor UAVs

K Zhang, Y Shi, H Sheng - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a robust nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) scheme is proposed for
the visual servoing of quadrotors subject to external disturbances. By using the virtual …

Planning and tracking in image space for image-based visual servoing of a quadrotor

D Zheng, H Wang, W Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method is proposed to solve the image-based control of a quadrotor Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) by directly planning and tracking in image space. First, by adopting the virtual …

Robust image-based landing control of a quadrotor on an unpredictable moving vehicle using circle features

J Lin, Y Wang, Z Miao, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the landing problem of a quadrotor on an unpredictable moving
vehicle, using a robust image-based visual servoing (IBVS) method. The circle-based image …

A novel geometric hierarchical approach for dynamic visual servoing of quadrotors

X Zhang, Y Fang, X Zhang, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel nonlinear geometric hierarchical dynamic visual servoing
approach to drive a quadrotor to the desired pose defined by a previously captured image of …

Recent advances on robot visual servo control methods

H Zhang, M Li, S Ma, H Jiang… - Recent Patents on …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: In order to enable robots to complete complex tasks, robots are required to
have higher intelligence and adaptability. RVSC (Robot Visual Servo Control) is an organic …

Toward visibility guaranteed visual servoing control of quadrotor UAVs

D Zheng, H Wang, J Wang, X Zhang… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the visibility problem in the visual servoing control of quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Visual servoing is a useful technique for the inspection …

Adaptive output-feedback image-based visual servoing for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles

H Xie, AF Lynch, KH Low, S Mao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents an adaptive output feedback image-based visual servoing (IBVS) law for
a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The control objective is to regulate the relative 3-D …

Dynamic image-based output feedback control for visual servoing of multirotors

X Zhang, Y Fang, X Zhang, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel adaptive image-based output feedback visual servoing
approach to control a multirotor to the desired pose by using a minimum onboard sensor …

Image-based visual servoing of rotorcrafts to planar visual targets of arbitrary orientation

J Li, H Xie, KH Low, J Yong, B Li - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter for the first time extends the virtual camera image-based visual servoing (IBVS)
scheme to enable an underactuated rotorcraft UAV to regulate its translational motion and …