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) …

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 …

ArduPilot-based adaptive autopilot: Architecture and software-in-the-loop experiments

S Baldi, D Sun, X Xia, G Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an adaptive method for ArduPilot-based autopilots of fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ArduPilot is a popular open-source unmanned vehicle …

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 …

Ibvs based on adaptive sliding mode control for a quadrotor target tracking under perturbations

A Miranda-Moya, H Castaneda, JL Gordillo, H Wang - Mechatronics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design of a visual control formulated on an adaptive sliding mode
controller for a quadrotor executing a target tracking task subject to disturbances. An image …

Output-feedback image-based visual servoing for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle line following

MA Rafique, AF Lynch - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers visual servoing-based motion control of multirotor unmanned aerial
vehicles. We employ output feedback and image-based visual servoing to control the …

Adaptive visual servoing of unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments

H Xie, KH Low, Z He - IEEE/ASME Transactions On …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an adaptive output feedback-based visual servoing law for a quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a single downward facing camera. The objective is …

A fractional nonlinear PI-structure control for robust attitude tracking of quadrotors

F Oliva-Palomo, AJ Muñoz-Vázquez… - … on Aerospace and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust attitude quadrotor control based on a novel fractional order PI nonlinear structure is
proposed and experimentally validated. The proportional action depends on a nonlinear …

Nonlinear control of quadrotor for fault tolerance: A total failure of one actuator

Y Wu, K Hu, XM Sun, Y Ma - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the problem of a quadrotor experiencing a total failure of one actuator.
First, a nonlinear mathematical model for the faulty quadrotor is derived with three control …

Depth Independent Augmented Dynamics Visual Servoing of Multirotors

AK Kamath, Z Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a depth-independent augmented dynamics visual servoing technique
for multirotors. Not only does this method eliminate the necessity for inverse Jacobian …