Sensors 2017, 17(3), 510; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17030510
A Novel System for Correction of Relative Angular Displacement between Airborne Platform and UAV in Target Localization
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Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Academic Editors: Felipe Gonzalez Toro and Antonios Tsourdos
Received: 30 December 2016 / Revised: 16 February 2017 / Accepted: 27 February 2017 / Published: 4 March 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV-Based Remote Sensing)
Abstract
This paper provides a system and method for correction of relative angular displacements between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and its onboard strap-down photoelectric platform to improve localization accuracy. Because the angular displacements have an influence on the final accuracy, by attaching a measuring system to the platform, the texture image of platform base bulkhead can be collected in a real-time manner. Through the image registration, the displacement vector of the platform relative to its bulkhead can be calculated to further determine angular displacements. After being decomposed and superposed on the three attitude angles of the UAV, the angular displacements can reduce the coordinate transformation errors and thus improve the localization accuracy. Even a simple kind of method can improve the localization accuracy by 14.3%. View Full-TextKeywords:
UAV; target localization; shock absorber; angular displacement; image registration; coordinate transformation
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Liu, C.; Liu, J.; Song, Y.; Liang, H. A Novel System for Correction of Relative Angular Displacement between Airborne Platform and UAV in Target Localization. Sensors 2017, 17, 510.
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