Landing site selection for UAV in unknown environment using surface inclination

Ishan Narayan; Neeraj Battish; Dapinder Kaur; Arjun Gupta; Shashi Poddar

doi:10.1117/12.3023755

28 May 2024 Landing site selection for UAV in unknown environment using surface inclination

Ishan Narayan, Neeraj Battish, Dapinder Kaur, Arjun Gupta, Shashi Poddar

Proceedings Volume 13083, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2024; 130830W (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3023755
Event: SPIE Future Sensing Technologies, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

Experimentation and research on safe and autonomous landing selection pipelines of UAVs are critical for their widespread deployment. Most of the methods of landing site selection are concentrated on control system-based methods that rely on feedback from sensors. For vision-based methods, extracting different surface parameters from images is vital of surface inclination is considered in this work. In this paper, a novel dataset consisting of images with different inclination label is prepared and tested with an end-to-end CNN based architecture. This LandUAVSafe dataset consists of RGB images with different inclination angles as ground truth labels. The dataset is created on ROS Gazebo using Iris UAV to capture different surfaces at several inclination angles at different heights. Three different CNN based architecture for inclination estimation based on Faster-RCNN, YOLOv3, and YOLOv8 has been experimented for classifying inclination between 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 degrees. The experimental results depict significant improvement with the YOLOv8-based architecture.

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Ishan Narayan, Neeraj Battish, Dapinder Kaur, Arjun Gupta, and Shashi Poddar "Landing site selection for UAV in unknown environment using surface inclination", Proc. SPIE 13083, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2024, 130830W (28 May 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3023755

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