Collaborative 3D Reconstruction Using Heterogeneous UAVs: System and ExperimentsShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: 2016 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTICS, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG , 2017, Vol. 1, p. 43-56Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper demonstrates how a heterogeneous fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support human operators in search and rescue (SaR) scenarios. We describe a fully autonomous delegation framework that interprets the top-level commands of the rescue team and converts them into actions of the UAVs. In particular, the UAVs are requested to autonomously scan a search area and to provide the operator with a consistent georeferenced 3D reconstruction of the environment to increase the environmental awareness and to support critical decision-making. The mission is executed based on the individual platform and sensor capabilities of rotary-and fixed-wing UAVs (RW-UAV and FW-UAV respectively): With the aid of an optical camera, the FW-UAV can generate a sparse point-cloud of a large area in a short amount of time. A LiDAR mounted on the autonomous helicopter is used to refine the visual point-cloud by generating denser point-clouds of specific areas of interest. In this context, we evaluate the performance of point-cloud registration methods to align two maps that were obtained by different sensors. In our validation, we compare classical point-cloud alignment methods to a novel probabilistic data association approach that specifically takes the individual point-cloud densities into consideration.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG , 2017. Vol. 1, p. 43-56
Series
Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, ISSN 2511-1256
Keywords [en]
Collaborative UAV mapping missions; Point-cloud generation; Vision-laser point-cloud alignment; Delegation of heterogeneouse agents
National Category
Robotics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-144574DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50115-4_5ISI: 000418796400005ISBN: 978-3-319-50115-4 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-50114-7 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-144574DiVA, id: diva2:1178264
Conference
15th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
Note
Funding Agencies|European Commissions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [285417, 600958]
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