Title
On vision enabled aerial manipulation for multirotors
Abstract
This article presents an integrated vision-based guiding system for aerial manipulation. More specifically, a 4 DoF planar dexterous manipulator, with a stereo camera attached on the end-effector, is endowed to a multirotor aerial platform enabling active manipulation capabilities. The proposed novel approach combines a visual processing scheme for object detection and tracking, as well as a manipulator positioning for allowing the aerial platform to approach the surface of interaction efficiently. In the developed scheme, the object detection is based on correlation filters to track the target robustly, while the depth information, from the stereo camera on board the manipulator, is used to extract the centroid of the manipulated object, compute its relative configuration with respect to the UAV and align the end-effector properly with the grasping point. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated in multiple experimental trials and simulations, highlighting it's applicability towards autonomous aerial manipulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ETFA.2017.8247653
2017 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
4 DoF planar dexterous manipulator,stereo camera,end-effector,multirotor aerial platform,active manipulation capabilities,visual processing scheme,object detection,manipulator positioning,manipulated object,autonomous aerial manipulation,vision enabled aerial manipulation,integrated vision-based guiding system,object tracking,interaction surface,correlation filters,target tracking,depth information,centroid extraction,UAV,grasping point
Object detection,Stereo camera,Visual processing,Active manipulation,Manipulator,Real-time computing,Planar,Engineering,Centroid,Multirotor
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1946-0740
978-1-5090-6506-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
christoforos kanellakis1348.89
Matteo Terreran210.36
Dariusz Kominiak343.57
George Nikolakopoulos414442.44