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Stereo Vision for Unmanned Aerial VehicleDetection, Tracking, and Motion Control

Signal Processing 2020-05-11 v1 Systems and Control Image and Video Processing Systems and Control

Abstract

An innovative method of detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is presented. The goal of this study is to develop a robust setup for an autonomous multi-rotor hunter UAV, capable of visually detecting and tracking the intruder UAVs for real-time motion planning. The system consists of two parts: object detection using a stereo camera to generate 3D point cloud data and video tracking applying a Kalman filter for UAV motion modeling. After detection, the hunter can aim and shoot a tethered net at the intruder to neutralize it. The computer vision, motion tracking, and planning algorithms can be implemented on a portable computer installed on the hunter UAV.

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@article{arxiv.2005.04183,
  title  = {Stereo Vision for Unmanned Aerial VehicleDetection, Tracking, and Motion Control},
  author = {Maria N. Brunet and Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro and Nina Mahmoudian and Mo Rastgaar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04183},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This work was accepted as a Late-Breaking result at the IFAC World Congress 2020