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A Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Dynamic Autonomous Docking Scheme in GPS-Denied Environments

Cheng, Cheng, Li, Xiuxian, Xie, Lihua, Li, Li·2023·Drones
DOI 10.3390/drones7100613
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This study designs a navigation and landing scheme for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to autonomously land on an arbitrarily moving unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in GPS-denied environments based on vision, ultra-wideband (UWB) and system information. In the approaching phase, an effective multi-innovation forgetting gradient (MIFG) algorithm is proposed to estimate the position of the UAV relative to the target using historical data (estimated distance and relative displacement measurements). Using these estimates, a saturated proportional navigation controller is developed, by which the UAV can approach the target, making the UGV enter the field of view (FOV) of the camera deployed in the UAV. Then, a sensor fusion estimation algorithm based on an extended Kalman filter (EKF) is proposed to achieve accurate landing. Finally, a numerical example and a real experiment are used to support the theoretical results.

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Metadata

Authors
Cheng, C., Li, X., Xie, L., & Li, L.
Venue
Drones
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2023-09-29
Volume
7
Issue
10
Pages
613
ISSN
2504-446X
DOI
10.3390/drones7100613
Cited by
31
References
1
Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (62003243, 62088101, 22120210099, 19511132101, 2021SHZDZX0100, 22-3)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (62003243, 62088101, 22120210099, 19511132101, 2021SHZDZX0100, 22-3)
  • Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology (62003243, 62088101, 22120210099, 19511132101, 2021SHZDZX0100, 22-3)
  • Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (62003243, 62088101, 22120210099, 19511132101, 2021SHZDZX0100, 22-3)
  • Shanghai Gaofeng & Gaoyuan Project for University Academic Program Development (62003243, 62088101, 22120210099, 19511132101, 2021SHZDZX0100, 22-3)

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