Accurate Landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Ground Pattern Recognition

• DOI: 10.3390/electronics8121532
• Publication Date: 2019-12-12T16:06:41Z
• Authors: Jamie Wubben; Francisco Fabra; Carlos T. Calafate; Tomasz Krzeszowski; Johann M. Marquez...; Juan-Carlos Cano; Pietro Manzoni
• Keywords: Position (finance)

Over the last few years, several researchers have been developing protocols and applications in order to autonomously land unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, most of proposed rely on expensive equipment or do not satisfy high precision needs some UAV such as package retrieval delivery compact landing swarms. Therefore, this work, a solution for based use ArUco markers is presented. In solution, equipped with low-cost camera able detect sized 56 × cm from an altitude up 30 m. Once marker detected, changes its flight behavior exact position where located. The proposal was evaluated validated using both ArduSim simulation platform real flights. results show average offset only 11 target position, which vastly improves accuracy compared traditional GPS-based landing, typically deviates intended by 1 3