Title
Toward image based visual servoing for aerial grasping and perching
Abstract
This paper addresses the dynamics, control, planning, and visual servoing for micro aerial vehicles to perform high-speed aerial grasping tasks. We draw inspiration from agile, fast-moving birds, such as raptors, that detect, locate, and execute high-speed swoop maneuvers to capture prey. Since these grasping maneuvers are predominantly in the sagittal plane, we consider the planar system and present mathematical models and algorithms for motion planning and control, required to incorporate similar capabilities in quadrotors equipped with a monocular camera. In particular, we develop a dynamical model directly in the image space, show that this is a differentially-flat system with the image features serving as flat outputs, outline a method for generating trajectories directly in the image feature space, develop a geometric visual controller that considers the second order dynamics (in contrast to most visual servoing controllers that assume first order dynamics), and present validation of our methods through both simulations and experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907149
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerospace robotics,mobile robots,motion control,path planning,robot vision,rotors,visual servoing,aerial perching,first order dynamics,geometric visual controller,grasping maneuvers,high-speed aerial grasping task,image based visual servoing,image feature space,image space,mathematical model,micro aerial vehicles,monocular camera,motion control,motion planning,planar system,quadrotor,sagittal plane,second order dynamics,visual servoing controller
Motion planning,Computer vision,Feature vector,Control theory,Feature (computer vision),Image based,Monocular camera,Control engineering,Visual servoing,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Mathematical model
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2014
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.92
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Justin Thomas11057.33
Giuseppe Loianno2628.41
Koushil Sreenath335833.41
Vijay Kumar47086693.29