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A Novel Stereo based Obstacle Avoidance System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

by Arjun Chakraborty, Bhargav Srinivasan
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 131 - Number 13
Year of Publication: 2015
Authors: Arjun Chakraborty, Bhargav Srinivasan
10.5120/ijca2015907550

Arjun Chakraborty, Bhargav Srinivasan . A Novel Stereo based Obstacle Avoidance System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. International Journal of Computer Applications. 131, 13 ( December 2015), 39-42. DOI=10.5120/ijca2015907550

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2015907550,
author = { Arjun Chakraborty, Bhargav Srinivasan },
title = { A Novel Stereo based Obstacle Avoidance System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { December 2015 },
volume = { 131 },
number = { 13 },
month = { December },
year = { 2015 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 39-42 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume131/number13/23513-2015907550/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2015907550 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Bhargav Srinivasan
%T A Novel Stereo based Obstacle Avoidance System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 131
%N 13
%P 39-42
%D 2015
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The use of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been on the rise. They are used to replace an ever-increasing amount of labor. There is a need for unmanned aerial systems to operate safely in the environment around them. The work in this paper aims at creating an obstacle avoidance system using Stereo Vision. The work uses standard block matching algorithms. OpenCV and the KTTI Vision Benchmark suite is used. The ArduPilot SITL simulator is used for running the algorithms and displaying the results. The droneapi is an application that is used to access the UAV’s information and describe new kinds of flight behavior. The application created is known as STOBA (Stereo Based Obstacle Avoidance), which was created to run within the ArduPilot SITL, in order to provide the mentioned obstacle avoidance capability

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Stereo Vision Obstacle avodiance UAV OpenCV