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A Study for UAV Autonomous Safe Landing-Site Selection on Rough Terrain

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Autonomous safe landing of UAV is an important function in many scenarios such as force landing and delivery. This paper proposes a method to autonomously select a safe landing site for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV based on point cloud, which can minimize combined risks posed during touch down at the chosen landing site. The most suitable landing site of a landing zone is selected according to the terrain complexity. In this paper, (1) fine-grained grid elevation map converted from the terrain point cloud is used to calculate the potential risk such as slope, roughness and maximum height difference. (2) A comprehensive risk model is designed to consider all above risks to recognize obstacles and risk areas, and combine the flight distance factors to obtain the final cost map. (3) We process cost map as image by OpenCV to accelerate the processing and reduce reaction time. Terrain point clouds of simulation scene and real world are used for experiments and experimental results show that the selected landing sites can meet the safety requirements, which demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our proposed method.

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      CONF-CDS 2021: The 2nd International Conference on Computing and Data Science
      January 2021
      1142 pages
      ISBN:9781450389570
      DOI:10.1145/3448734
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      1. Elevation map
      2. Obstacle recognition
      3. Point Cloud
      4. Rough terrain
      5. Safe landing

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