Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Visual Navigation

Title:	A critical review on the state of the art in visual navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles	Image:gesturelib.jpg
Description:	Visual navigation is becoming more and more important in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The goal of this thesis/tesina is to review in a structured way the current state of art in the field from different perspective: research teams, projects, platforms, tasks, algorithms. The latter is the most important aspect obviously and the project should provide a clear view on what is done today, and obtaining which results. Two kind of operations are of most interest: tracking of fixed and mobile targets (and how this impact on the UAV path), navigation on a geo-referenced map. Implementing one of the standard approaches on a mini unmanned aerial vehicle would be the ideal ending of the work to turn it into a thesis. Material: papers from major journals and conferences reports from research projects Expected outcome: a report with a detailed review of the state of the art organized according to the main relevant aspects (to be identified during the work) an implementation of some state of the art algorithms for tracking or navigation Required skills or skills to be acquired: proficiency in english basic understanding of computer vision basic understanding of filtering techniques
Tutor:	MatteoMatteucci (matteo.matteucci@polimi.it)
Start:	2012/04/01
Students:	1 - 2
CFU:	10 - 20
Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	none
Level:	Bs, Ms
Type:	Thesis
Status:	Active