Title
Autonomous System for a Racing Quadcopter
Abstract
In this paper, we present a methodology to make an autonomous drone fly through a sequence of gates only with on-board sensors. Our work is a solution to the AlphaPilot Challenge, proposed by the Lookheed Martin Company and the Drone Racing League. First, we propose a strategy to generate a smooth trajectory that passes through the gates. Then, we develop a localization system, which merges image data from an on-board camera with IMU data. Finally, we present an artificial vector field based strategy used to control the quadcopter. Our results are validated with simulations in the official simulator of the competition and with preliminary experiments with a real drone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICAR46387.2019.8981660
2019 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
autonomous drone,on-board sensors,AlphaPilot Challenge,Lookheed Martin Company,Drone Racing League,localization system,image data,on-board camera,IMU data,artificial vector field,autonomous system,racing quadcopter
Astronomy,Vector field,Quadcopter,Real-time computing,Inertial measurement unit,Drone,Autonomous system (mathematics),Localization system,Trajectory,Physics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2468-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
6