Experimental Study of Autonomous UAV Landing in Using Fuzzy Logic and RGBD-Enhanced Visual SLAM
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Abstract
The landing zone detection and realization for a multi-rotor vehicle is a task fraught with challenges specially in environments ridden with obstacles where the complexity level is escalated. To guarantee a risk-free landing operation, a multistage framework utilizing visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) and approximate fuzzy reasoning is proposed. The landing process is orchestrated into four sequential stages. The landing terrain is first characterized by processing the RGB images and point clouds from the depth map and vSLAM. A Mamdani fuzzy system is next leveraged to combine the flatness, steepness, inclination, and depth variation maps, each of which jointly contributes to computing a novel fuzzy map. By applying a global thresholding on the generated fuzzy map and utilizing it as a mask on the back-projected vSLAM point clouds, the vast majority of unsafe landing areas are eliminated. As the world points corresponding to the remaining vSLAM points can be identified, the patch with the maximum flatness is selected for further processing and image-based visual servoing (IBVS) execution. To examine the functionality of the safe landing solution, rigorous simulations of the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo are performed. Furthermore, the results for the real-world data are investigated for the landing algorithm.
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Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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