In the last few years, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have been attracting enormous research interest, being employed in military and civilian missions (e.g. search and rescue, disaster assessment, urban traffic monitoring, 3D mapping, etc.) that would be risky or impossible for a human to perform. For autonomous or aided operations (e.g. automatic or aided landing), it is crucial to have on board an effective suite of sensors allowing navigation in unknown environments. This work performs obstacle detection and attitude estimation for a small quad-rotor by using low-cost sensors, namely, a Sonic Ranging Sensor (SRS) and an InfraRed Sensor (IRS), widely used in mobile applications for short distance measurements. Both sensors were controlled and managed by a microcontroller (Arduino Mega 2560) and synchronized at 2-Hz sampling. Attitude estimation was performed using multiple distance measurements between a solid surface (e.g. wall or ground) and the SRS/IRS sensors. A short range of 20–150 cm has been considered in order to assist the UAS landing procedure. The main objective was to integrate the SRS and IRS measurements for accurate distance and attitude estimation by means of variance minimization. Simulations and experimental results show the feasibility of low-cost sensor fusion for obstacle detection and ranging applications on a small rotary wing UAS.


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    Titel :

    Obstacle detection and ranging sensor integration for a small unmanned aircraft system


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.06.2017


    Format / Umfang :

    1920679 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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