Paper Info
Title
Development and Evaluation of a Chase View for UAV Operations in Cluttered Environments
Abstract
Civilian applications for UAVs will bring these vehicles into low flying areas cluttered with obstacles such as building, trees, power lines, and more importantly civilians. The high accident rate of UAVs means that civilian use will come at a huge risk unless we design systems and protocols that can prevent UAV accidents, better train operators and augment pilot performance. This paper presents two methods for generating a chase view to the pilot for UAV operations in cluttered environments. The chase view gives the operator a virtual view from behind the UAV during flight. This is done by generating a virtual representation of the vehicle and surrounding environment while integrating it with the real-time onboard camera images. Method I presents a real-time mapping approach toward generating the surrounding environment and Method II uses a prior model of the operating environment. Experimental results are presented from tests where subjects flew in a H0 scale environment using a 6 DOF gantry system. Results showed that the chase view improved UAV operator performance over using the traditional onboard camera view.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10846-009-9356-4
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
UAV safety,UAV accidents,UAV training
Operating environment,Simulation,Virtual representation,Design systems,Control engineering,Electric power transmission,Real-time computing,Onboard camera,Chase,Operator performance,Operator (computer programming),Engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
1-4
0921-0296
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.44
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James T. Hing1576.98
Keith W. Sevcik2133.60
Paul Y. Oh328951.08