A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs

Alvika Gautam; P. B. Sujit; Srikanth Saripalli

doi:10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842377

A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs

Alvika Gautam, P. B. Sujit, Srikanth Saripalli

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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Abstract

Landing an aerial vehicle is a very challenging problem. Pilots spend numerous hours practicing touchdowns because of the risk involved during landing phase. Developing autonomous landing technologies have been an active area of research over the past decade. This paper presents a review of landing techniques ranging from GPS based landing to vision based landing techniques; from basic nonlinear to intelligent, hybrid and robust control. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of the landing control problem and controller design. The paper provides a comparison based on parameters such as type of the vehicle, assumptions made in the problem design, techniques used and efficacy of the algorithm in real world conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	1210-1218
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781479923762
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842377
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: May 27 2014 → May 30 2014

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Other	2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	5/27/14 → 5/30/14

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Aerospace Engineering

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Gautam, A., Sujit, P. B., & Saripalli, S. (2014). A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs. In 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings (pp. 1210-1218). Article 6842377 (2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842377

A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs. / Gautam, Alvika; Sujit, P. B.; Saripalli, Srikanth.
2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society, 2014. p. 1210-1218 6842377 (2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings).

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Gautam, A, Sujit, PB & Saripalli, S 2014, A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs. in 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings., 6842377, 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1210-1218, 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014, Orlando, FL, United States, 5/27/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842377

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