A deep reinforcement learning strategy for UAV autonomous landing on a moving platform

A Rodriguez-Ramos, C Sampedro, H Bavle… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2019 - Springer
The use of multi-rotor UAVs in industrial and civil applications has been extensively
encouraged by the rapid innovation in all the technologies involved. In particular, deep …

Analysis and improvements in AprilTag based state estimation

SM Abbas, S Aslam, K Berns, A Muhammad - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we analyzed the accuracy and precision of AprilTag as a visual fiducial marker
in detail. We have analyzed error propagation along two horizontal axes along with the …

A deep reinforcement learning technique for vision-based autonomous multirotor landing on a moving platform

A Rodriguez-Ramos, C Sampedro… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning techniques for motion control have recently been qualitatively improved,
since the successful application of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain in Atari …

Quadrotor autonomous approaching and landing on a vessel deck

L Wang, X Bai - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2018 - Springer
Autonomous landing of a quadrotor UAV on a vessel deck is challenging due to the special
sea environment. In this paper, we present an on-board monocular vision based solution …

Fast, safe and precise landing of a quadrotor on an oscillating platform

B Hu, L Lu, S Mishra - 2015 American Control Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel control structure that can achieve fast, safe and precise
landing of a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) UAV onto a vertically oscillating landing pad …

Experimental tests of hybrid VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance missions and operations in maritime conditions from ship‐based helipads

L Ambroziak, M Ciężkowski… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents research on a hybrid vertical take‐off and landing (VTOL) unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) supported by a relative positioning system, enabling the deployment of …

Autonomous ship deck landing of a quadrotor using invariant ellipsoid method

CK Tan, J Wang, YC Paw, F Liao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an invariant ellipsoid-based method for the controller design and gain
synthesis of a low-cost quadrotor autonomous ship deck landing system subjected to wind …

Visual servoing with feed-forward for precision shipboard landing of an autonomous multirotor

JS Wynn, TW McLain - 2019 American control conference (ACC …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper the problem of performing a precision landing of an autonomous multirotor on a
small barge at sea is studied. An image-based visual servoing approach, which was initially …

A control architecture for time‐optimal landing of a quadrotor onto a moving platform

B Hu, L Lu, S Mishra - Asian Journal of Control, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We address the problem of autonomous landing of a quadrotor onto a heaving (moving
vertically) platform in this paper. A control architecture that consists of a motion estimation …

Lidar-guided autonomous landing of an aerial vehicle on a ground vehicle

J Kim, S Woo, J Kim - 2017 14th International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a
ground vehicle. Unlike most of the previous research on autonomous UAV landing that used …