An Image Processing Approach for Real-Time Safety Assessment of Autonomous Drone Delivery

被引:2
作者
Alsawy, Assem [1 ,2 ]
Moss, Dan [3 ]
Hicks, Alan [3 ]
McKeever, Susan [1 ]
机构
[1] Technol Univ Dublin TU Dublin, Sch Comp Sci, Grangegorman Campus, Dublin D07 ADY7, Ireland
[2] Ahram Canadian Univ ACU, Fac Comp Sci & Informat Technol, Giza 12451, Egypt
[3] Manna Drone Delivery, Dublin D04 V2N9, Ireland
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
unmanned aerial vehicles; UAV; autonomous drone; drone delivery; image processing; segmentation; safety assessment classifier;
D O I
10.3390/drones8010021
中图分类号
TP7 [遥感技术];
学科分类号
081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;
摘要
The aim of producing self-driving drones has driven many researchers to automate various drone driving functions, such as take-off, navigation, and landing. However, despite the emergence of delivery as one of the most important uses of autonomous drones, there is still no automatic way to verify the safety of the delivery stage. One of the primary steps in the delivery operation is to ensure that the dropping zone is a safe area on arrival and during the dropping process. This paper proposes an image-processing-based classification approach for the delivery drone dropping process at a predefined destination. It employs live streaming via a single onboard camera and Global Positioning System (GPS) information. A two-stage processing procedure is proposed based on image segmentation and classification. Relevant parameters such as camera parameters, light parameters, dropping zone dimensions, and drone height from the ground are taken into account in the classification. The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach provides a fast method with reliable accuracy based on low-order calculations.
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