Towards Collision Avoidance for Commodity Hardware Quadcopters with Ultrasound LocalizationShow others and affiliations
2015 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
We present a quadcopter platform built with commodity hardware that is able to do localization in GNSS-denied areas and avoid collisions by using a novel easy-to-setup and inexpensive ultrasound-localization system. We address the challenge to accurately estimate the copter's position and not hit any obstacles, including other, moving, quadcopters. The quadcopters avoid collisions by placing contours that represent risk around static and dynamic objects and acting if the risk contours overlap with ones own comfort zone. Position and velocity information is communicated between the copters to make them aware of each other. The shape and size of the risk contours are continuously updated based on the relative speed and distance to the obstacles and the current estimated localization accuracy. Thus, the collision-avoidance system is autonomous and only interferes with human or machine control of the quadcopter if the situation is hazardous. In the development of this platform we used our own simulation system using fault-injection (sensor faults, communication faults) together with automatically-generated tests to identify problematic scenarios for which the localization and risk contour parameters had to be adjusted. In the end, we were able to run thousands of simulations without any collisions, giving us confidence that also many real quadcopters can manoeuvre collision free in space-constrained GNSS-denied areas.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. p. 193-203
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-6882DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2015.7152291Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84941030880Local ID: 29527OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-6882DiVA, id: diva2:964723
Conference
Proceedings of The 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Denver, USA
2016-09-082016-09-082023-05-23Bibliographically approved