NDLI: A robust vision-based runway detection and tracking algorithm for automatic UAV landing

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Author	Abu-Jbara, K. Alheadary, W. Sundaramorthi, G. Claudel, C.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAUST, Saudi Arabia (Abu-Jbara, K.; Alheadary, W.; Sundaramorthi, G.; Claudel, C.)
Abstract	This work presents a novel real-time algorithm for runway detection and tracking applied to the automatic takeoff and landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The algorithm is based on a combination of segmentation based region competition and the minimization of a specific energy function to detect and identify the runway edges from streaming video data. The resulting video-based runway position estimates are updated using a Kalman Filter (KF), which can integrate other sensory information such as position and attitude angle estimates to allow a more robust tracking of the runway under turbulence. We illustrate the performance of the proposed lane detection and tracking scheme on various experimental UAV flights conducted by the Saudi Aerospace Research Center (KACST). Results show an accurate tracking of the runway edges during the landing phase, under various lighting conditions, and suggest that such positional estimates would greatly improve the positional accuracy of the UAV during takeoff and landing phases. The robustness of the proposed algorithm is further validated using Hardware in the Loop (HIL) simulations with diverse takeoff and landing videos generated using a commercial flight simulator.
Starting Page	1148
Ending Page	1157
File Size	2444233
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479960101
DOI	10.1109/ICUAS.2015.7152407
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image segmentation Image edge detection Streaming media Robustness Real-time systems Optimization Global Positioning System
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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