UAV landing based on the optical flow videonavigation

A Miller, B Miller, A Popov, K Stepanyan - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
An automatic landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a non-trivial task requiring a
solution of a variety of technical and computational problems. The most important is the …

Improved optical sensor fusion in UAV navigation using feature point threshold filter

T Kim, D Kim, S Kim, Y Kim, S Han - International Journal of Aeronautical …, 2022 - Springer
This paper proposes the modified feature point threshold filter (FPTF) algorithm for UAVs to
improve optical-flow-based navigation performance depending on the altitude and velocity …

A comparison of dense and sparse optical flow techniques for low-resolution aerial thermal imagery

TXB Nguyen, K Rosser, J Chahl - Journal of Imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is necessary to establish the relative performance of established optical flow approaches
in airborne scenarios with thermal cameras. This study investigated the performance of a …

Neural network‐based optical flow versus traditional optical flow techniques with thermal aerial imaging in real‐world settings

TXB Nguyen, K Rosser, A Perera… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study explores the feasibility of optical flow‐based neural network from real‐world
thermal aerial imagery. While traditional optical flow techniques have shown adequate …

Sparse Optical Flow Implementation Using a Neural Network for Low-Resolution Thermal Aerial Imaging

TXB Nguyen, J Chahl - Journal of Imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study is inspired by the widely used algorithm for real-time optical flow, the sparse
Lucas–Kanade, by applying a feature extractor to decrease the computational requirement …

Characteristics of optical flow from aerial thermal imaging,“thermal flow”

TXB Nguyen, K Rosser, A Perera, P Moss… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the utility of optical flow calculated from thermal imaging
cameras,“thermal flow,” mounted on an aircraft for localization in day and night conditions …

Corridor 3d navigation of a fully-actuated multirotor by means of bee-inspired optic flow regulation

JJ Castillo-Zamora, L Bergantin… - 2022 26th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the issue of autonomous indoors navigation related to Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles. Here, we simulated two hexarotors: a fully-actuated one that maintains level …

[PDF][PDF] Методы видеонавигации БПЛА с использованием оптического потока

КС Колосов, АБ Миллер, БМ Миллер… - Сб. трудов XIII …, 2019 - scholar.archive.org
В наши дни достижениÿ в разработке оптоэлектронных устройств и систем передачи
данных позволÿют использовать их в системах дистанционного управлениÿ …

An Optical-Flow-Assisted Navigation Method for UAVs Using Sage-Husa EKF

K Hu, X Wu, H Xu, J Li, J Li - International Symposium on Automatic …, 2023 - Springer
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually equipped with low-cost global
positioning systems (GPS)/inertial integrated navigation systems. In the GPS-denied …

Using Optical Flow to provide robustness for animage sensor based multiangulation positioning system

F Anderson - 2022 - diva-portal.org
The use of image sensors in positioning systems has increased significantly the last years,
spanning from complex SLAM-systems to simpler triangulation based methods. In the latter …