Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 11

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2017F184

Citation: Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 11, pages 1177–1185 (2017)

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Abstract. In this paper the authors present the results of research to develop the visual system for autonomous flying agent. The core elements of the vision system which were designed and implemented in the earlier stage of the project are brought together. The second aim is to show capabilities of a simulation environment designed and developed by the authors in order to enable testing of the vision systems (dedicated for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in the artificial environment. The first section of the paper introduces the testing (simulation) environment for MavLink-protocol-based autonomous flying robots. Next, the core elements of a vision system, designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), are discussed. This includes pre-processing and vectorization algorithms, object recognition methods and fast three-dimensional model construction. The third part introduces a set of algorithms for robot navigation, solely based on vision and altitude sensor and compass. The paper concludes with the description of the tests and presentation of results where designed simulator was applied to show mentioned vision system elements operating together to execute complex task.

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