Design, Implementation and Testing of a Vision System for Small Unmanned Vertical Take off and Landing Vehicles with Strict Payload Limitations

  • Authors:

  • M. Kontitsis;R. D. Garcia;K. P. Valavanis

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue and Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue and Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue and Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Alternative designs of a simple, low cost and effective vision system for small, portable, unmanned aerial vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicles are presented. Design configurations follow the `on-board' and `on-the-ground' processing concept and they depend on very strict payload limitations and power supply restrictions. Hardware and software components for both designs are described; advantages and disadvantages of both alternatives are compared; computational complexity is calculated and trade offs are discussed. Implementations on a series of small unmanned VTOL vehicles as well as testing details are included and experimental results are presented.