This paper is about vision-based autonomous flight of MAVs at night. Despite it being dark almost half of the time, most of the work to date has addressed only daytime operations. Enabling autonomous night-time operation of MAVs with low SWaP on-board sensing capabilities is still an open problem in current robotics research. In this paper, we take a step in this direction and introduce a robust vision-based perception system using thermal-infrared cameras. We present this in the context of safe autonomous landing on rooftop-like structures, and demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed system through extensive real-world flight experiments in outdoor environments at night.


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    Title :

    Robust Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Landing for MAVs at Night


    Additional title:

    Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Symposium on Experimental Robotics ; 2018 ; Buenos Aires, Argentina November 05, 2018 - November 08, 2018



    Publication date :

    2020-01-23


    Size :

    11 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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