Vision navigation with salient features for autonomous aircraft

Junwei Yu*, Nan Liu, Guicai Wang, Xiaobo Jin

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Abstract

A novel technique of vision-aided navigation for autonomous aircraft is presented in this paper. The aircraft's position and pose are estimated with several control points. The saliency descriptor of corner is defined and the control points are selected according their saliency. Control points are tracked in sequential images based on Fourier-Melline transform. The unscented Kalman filter is used to fuse the aircraft state information provided by the vision system and the inertial navigation system. Experiments show that the accuracy, efficiency and robustness of aircraft navigation system are improved with the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Mechatronics and Control Engineering
Pages1237-1241
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering, ICMCE 2012 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 29 Nov 201230 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameApplied Mechanics and Materials
Volume278-280
ISSN (Print)1660-9336
ISSN (Electronic)1662-7482

Conference

Conference2012 International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering, ICMCE 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period29/11/1230/11/12

Keywords

  • Aircraft navigation
  • Salient feature
  • Unscented kalman filter(UKF)
  • Vision location

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