Robust Landing for UAVs in Maritime Environments¶
Precision landing of UAVs is a topic of increasing interest, especially in maritime environments due to the potentially catastrophic effect of a failed landing and the naturally dynamic environment. In this project, we developed a method that enables precision landing of a UAV on a boat-like platform using 1) only RTK GPS and 2) RTK-GPS and vision-based localization.
We conducted flight test results and showed that the RTK-only solution was able to achieve precision landings with an accuracy of 10 centimeters.
Sponsors¶
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Personnel¶
Students¶
- Alex Jordan
- Matthew Rydalch
- Michael Williamson Tabango
- Landon Shumway
- Jacob Moore