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Visual Surveillance System with Multi-UAVs Under Communication Constrains

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Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 417))

Abstract

In this paper, it is proposed a visual surveillance system for multiple UAVs under communication constrains. In previous works, a dynamic task allocation algorithm was designed for assigning patrolling and tracking tasks between multiple robots. The idea was to assign the intruders dynamically among the robots using one-to-one coordination technique. However due to communication constrains, every UAVs could store different information. In this paper, local information about targets is obtained by a visual algorithm that detects moving objects during surveillance tasks using fixed low-cost monocular RGB-camera connected to an on-board computer. This system was tested in a urban surveillance scenario, implemented in an indoor test-bed, under EC-SAFEMOBIL project.

B.C. Arrue and A. Ollero are with Grupo de Robotica, Vision y Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

J.J. Acevedo is with Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal.

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    P. Ramon, Begoña C. Arrue, J. J. Acevedo & A. Ollero

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  1. Info Syst Dept;Campus de Azurém, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    António Paulo Moreira

  3. Instituto Superior Tecnico - Torre Norte, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Pedro U. Lima

  4. Engineering Dept., E. Ada Byron, Univ of Zaragoza, Computer & Systems, Zaragoza, Spain

    Luis Montano

  5. Automatic Control and Systems Eng. Dept., University of Malaga, Superior Technical, Málaga, Spain

    Victor Muñoz-Martinez

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Ramon, P., Arrue, B.C., Acevedo, J.J., Ollero, A. (2016). Visual Surveillance System with Multi-UAVs Under Communication Constrains. In: Reis, L., Moreira, A., Lima, P., Montano, L., Muñoz-Martinez, V. (eds) Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_54

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