Departmental Papers (MEAM)

Document Type

Journal Article

Subject Area

GRASP

Date of this Version

1-2016

Publication Source

Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE

Volume

1

Issue

1

Start Page

57

Last Page

64

DOI

10.1109/LRA.2015.2506001

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Abstract

This paper addresses vision-based localization and servoing for quadrotors to enable autonomous perching by hanging from cylindrical structures using only a monocular camera. We focus on the problems of relative pose estimation, control, and trajectory planning for maneuvering a robot relative to cylinders with unknown orientations. We first develop a geometric model that describes the pose of the robot relative to a cylinder. Then, we derive the dynamics of the system, expressed in terms of the image features. Based on the dynamics, we present a controller which guarantees asymptotic convergence to the desired image space coordinates. Finally, we develop an effective method to plan dynamically-feasible trajectories in the image space, and we provide experimental results to demonstrate the proposed method under different operating conditions such as hovering, trajectory tracking, and perching.

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Keywords

aerial robotics, visual servoing

Bib Tex

@ARTICLE{7347389,
author={Thomas, J. and Loianno, G. and Daniilidis, K. and Kumar, V.},
journal={Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE},
title={Visual Servoing of Quadrotors for Perching by Hanging from Cylindrical Objects},
year={2015},
volume={PP},
number={99},
pages={1-1},
keywords={Aerospace electronics;Cameras;Robot kinematics;Trajectory;Visual servoing;Aerial Robotics;Visual Servoing},
doi={10.1109/LRA.2015.2506001},
ISSN={2377-3766},
month={},}

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Date Posted: 17 December 2015