Visual Detection and Implementation Aspects of a UAV See and Avoid System

Author

Zsedrovits, Tamas ; Zarandy, Akos ; Vanek, Balint ; Peni, Tamas ; Bokor, Jozsef ; Roska, Tamas

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Pazmany Peter Catholic Univ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2011

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

475

Abstract

One of the missing critical on-board safety equipment of the Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) is the collision avoidance system. In 2010 we launched a project to research and develop an SAA system for UAS. As the system will be on-board in a small aircraft we have to minimize the weight, the volume, and the power consumption. The acceptable power consumption is 1-2W and the mass of the control system is maximum 300-500g. Here we present the concept of a visual input based See and Avoid (SAA) system. This paper introduces the long range visual detection algorithm and the implementation aspect of the many core processor device.

Keywords

aerospace safety; aircraft; collision avoidance; mobile robots; object detection; remotely operated vehicles; robot vision; UAV see and avoid system; collision avoidance system; control system; core processor device; critical on-board safety equipment; power consumption; small aircraft; unmanned arial vehicles; visual detection; Aircraft; Arrays; Cameras; Estimation; Target tracking; Visualization; See and Avoid; UAV; long range visual detection; many-core;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), 2011 20th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Linkoping

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0617-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0616-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCTD.2011.6043389

Filename

6043389