Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Vision-Based Multirotor Following Using Synthetic Learning Techniques
Year:2019

Research Areas
  • Automatic

Information
Abstract
Deep- and reinforcement-learning techniques have increasingly required large sets of real data to achieve stable convergence and generalization, in the context of image-recognition, object-detection or motion-control strategies. On this subject, the research community lacks robust approaches to overcome unavailable real-world extensive data by means of realistic synthetic-information and domain-adaptation techniques. In this work, synthetic-learning strategies have been used for the vision-based autonomous following of a noncooperative multirotor. The complete maneuver was learned with synthetic images and high-dimensional low-level continuous robot states, with deep- and reinforcement-learning techniques for object detection and motion control, respectively. A novel motion-control strategy for object following is introduced where the camera gimbal movement is coupled with the multirotor motion during the multirotor following. Results confirm that our present framework can be used to deploy a vision-based task in real flight using synthetic data. It was extensively validated in both simulated and real-flight scenarios, providing proper results (following a multirotor up to 1.3 m/s in simulation and 0.3 m/s in real flights).
International
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JCR
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Title
Sensors, volume 19,
ISBN
1424-8220
Impact factor JCR
3,275
Impact info
Volume
19
10.3390/s19214794
Journal number
From page
0
To page
20
Month
NOVIEMBRE
Ranking
Instruments and Instrumentation 5/64 (Q1) Engineering, Electrical & Electronic 77/266 (Q2) SiteScore (SCOPUS) in 2019: 5.0 Ranking: Instrumentation 17/139 (Q1) Electrical & Electronic Engineering 147/670 (Q2)
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Visión por Computador y Robótica Aérea
  • Departamento: Automática, Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica e Informática Industrial
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Automática y Robótica (CAR). Centro Mixto UPM-CSIC