Guidance for Autonomous Aerial Manipulator Using Stereo Vision

Autonomous Guidance of a Corn Harvester using Stereo Vision

The growing demand for applications in Precision Agriculture has been proportional to the emergent interest in automatic guidance of agricultural machines. The difficult, and at the same time strenuous, task of driving a harvester during the prolonged working days of the harvesting season justifies the special attention paid to this technology. The development of Global Navigation Satellite Sys...

Stereo Vision System for Guidance of Autonomous Aircraft

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly replacing manned systems in situations that are either too dangerous, too remote, or too difficult formanned aircraft to access. Modern UAVs are capable of accurately controlling their position and orientation in space using systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS). However, they are...

Autonomous Cross-Country Navigation Using Stereo Vision

This paper reports on an autonomous robot designed for operation in uncharted outdoor environments. To accomplish this we have developed a robot vehicle equipped with wide field-of-view stereo vision and high accuracy inertial navigation. The software resident onboard the vehicle uses binoculor cameras, mounted in a novel configuration, to produce dense range maps of the environment. This data ...

Terminal Guidance for Autonomous Aerial Refueling

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Performance Improvements for Autonomous Cross-Country Navigation Using Stereo Vision