Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images

Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used with navigation based on data from onboard integrated systems including inertial and satellite sensors. In this case, to solve many target tasks, their preliminary exit to a given point of the flight route along the shortest horizontal trajectory i...

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Main Authors: Vladimir G. Andronov, Andrey A. Chuev, Nikita S. Dubrovsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2023-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Engineering Research
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Online Access:https://journals.rudn.ru/engineering-researches/article/viewFile/37065/22835
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author Vladimir G. Andronov
Andrey A. Chuev
Nikita S. Dubrovsky
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description Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used with navigation based on data from onboard integrated systems including inertial and satellite sensors. In this case, to solve many target tasks, their preliminary exit to a given point of the flight route along the shortest horizontal trajectory is provided. However, in practice, there may be situations when the information received from navigation satellites may no longer be available, which leads to a decrease in navigation accuracy. Considered a technique for detecting the trajectory of unmanned aerial vehicles under conditions of loss of signals from navigation satellites using the underlying surface images. As a criterion indicating the occurrence of deviations of unmanned aerial vehicles from a specified trajectory, it is proposed to use the change in parallaxes of adjacent pairs of images. Analytical relations describing the functional relationship between changes in image parallaxes and parameters of linear and angular deviations of unmanned aerial vehicles from a specified trajectory. All possible options of these deviations are also considered. The obtained results provide an a priori estimate of the threshold value of parallax changes corresponding to the acceptable level of unmanned aerial vehicles deviations from the specified trajectory by means of modelling. Based on this estimate, it is possible to improve the accuracy of trajectory detection of unmanned aerial vehicles under conditions of loss of signals from navigation satellites.
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spelling doaj.art-e3513244ff8e417d835ea060eab3c4242023-12-14T09:01:35ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Engineering Research2312-81432312-81512023-12-0124321322210.22363/2312-8143-2023-24-3-213-22221094Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping imagesVladimir G. Andronov0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-0026Andrey A. Chuev1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-0533Nikita S. Dubrovsky2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1261-1928Southwest State UniversitySouthwest State UniversitySouthwest State UniversityCurrently, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used with navigation based on data from onboard integrated systems including inertial and satellite sensors. In this case, to solve many target tasks, their preliminary exit to a given point of the flight route along the shortest horizontal trajectory is provided. However, in practice, there may be situations when the information received from navigation satellites may no longer be available, which leads to a decrease in navigation accuracy. Considered a technique for detecting the trajectory of unmanned aerial vehicles under conditions of loss of signals from navigation satellites using the underlying surface images. As a criterion indicating the occurrence of deviations of unmanned aerial vehicles from a specified trajectory, it is proposed to use the change in parallaxes of adjacent pairs of images. Analytical relations describing the functional relationship between changes in image parallaxes and parameters of linear and angular deviations of unmanned aerial vehicles from a specified trajectory. All possible options of these deviations are also considered. The obtained results provide an a priori estimate of the threshold value of parallax changes corresponding to the acceptable level of unmanned aerial vehicles deviations from the specified trajectory by means of modelling. Based on this estimate, it is possible to improve the accuracy of trajectory detection of unmanned aerial vehicles under conditions of loss of signals from navigation satellites.https://journals.rudn.ru/engineering-researches/article/viewFile/37065/22835aerial photographynavigationimage parallaxinertial measurementsloss of satellite signals
spellingShingle Vladimir G. Andronov
Andrey A. Chuev
Nikita S. Dubrovsky
Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
RUDN Journal of Engineering Research
aerial photography
navigation
image parallax
inertial measurements
loss of satellite signals
title Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
title_full Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
title_fullStr Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
title_full_unstemmed Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
title_short Detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
title_sort detection of unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory using overlapping images
topic aerial photography
navigation
image parallax
inertial measurements
loss of satellite signals
url https://journals.rudn.ru/engineering-researches/article/viewFile/37065/22835
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