Visual servoing of a quadrotor uav for autonomous power lines inspection

O Araar, N Aouf - 22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this work is to achieve real time tracking of power conductors using a
Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). Two solutions are proposed. For the first solution …

Project AURORA: Infrastructure and flight control experiments for a robotic airship

EC De Paiva, JR Azinheira, JG Ramos Jr… - Journal of Field …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Project AURORA aims at the development of unmanned robotic airships capable of
autonomous flight over user‐defined locations for aerial inspection and environmental …

Visual servoing of an airplane for auto-landing

O Bourquardez, F Chaumette - 2007 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a visual servoing scheme is proposed to control an airplane during its landing.
A linearized model of the airplane dynamics and decoupled visual features are used to build …

Image-based visual servoing for vanishing features and ground lines tracking: Application to a uav automatic landing

JR Azinheira, P Rives - International Journal of Optomechatronics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
A unified modeling framework is defined and an image-based visual servoing scheme is
introduced to evaluate the feasibility of a vision-based guidance for a UAV model during …

Linear structures following by an airship using vanishing point and horizon line in a visual servoing scheme

P Rives, JR Azinheira - IEEE International Conference on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the present paper, an image-based visual servoing scheme is presented for a road
following task with an autonomous airship. A new set of visual signals is introduced, namely …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling and nonlinear control for airship autonomous flight

AB Moutinho - Universidade Tecnica De Lisboa Instituto Superior …, 2007 - researchgate.net
The work developed and presented in this thesis focuses on the design, validation and
comparison of different nonlinear control solutions allowing an airship to navigate …

Visual servoing of an airplane for alignment with respect to a runway

O Bourquardez, F Chaumette - Proceedings 2007 IEEE …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a visual servoing scheme to align an airplane with respect to a
runway. A linearized model of the airplane dynamics and decoupled visual features are …

Homography-based visual servoing of an aircraft for automatic approach and landing

T Gonçalves, J Azinheira… - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes the Euclidean homography matrix as visual feature in an image-based
visual servoing scheme in order to control an aircraft along the approach and landing phase …

Computer vision-based navigation and predefined track following control of a small robotic airship

XIE Shao-Rong, LUO Jun, RAO Jin-Jun… - Acta Automatica …, 2007 - Elsevier
For small robotic airships, it is required that the airship should be capable of following a
predefined track. In this paper, computer vision-based navigation and optimal fuzzy control …

Autonomous path tracking of a kinematic airship in presence of unknown gust

E Kahale, P Castillo Garcia, Y Bestaoui - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2013 - Springer
The trajectory tracking problem of autonomous lighter than air vehicles in the presence of
wind gusts is studied in this paper. The airship is represented as one point which is its center …