08462710.pdf (3.87 MB)
Aerodrome situational awareness of unmanned aircraft: an integrated self-learning approach with Bayesian network semantic segmentation
journal contribution
posted on 2018-06-08, 13:29 authored by Bowen Lu, Matthew CoombesMatthew Coombes, Baibing LiBaibing Li, Wen-Hua ChenWen-Hua ChenIt is expected that soon there will be a significant number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating side-by-side with manned civil aircraft in national airspace systems. To be able to integrate UAVs safely with civil traffic, a number of challenges must be overcome first. This paper investigates situational awareness of UAVs’ autonomous taxiing in an aerodrome environment.
The research work is based on a real outdoor experimental data collected at the Walney Island Airport, the United Kingdom. It aims to further develop and test UAVs’ autonomous taxiing in a challenging outdoor environment. To address various practical issues arising from the outdoor aerodrome such as camera vibration, taxiway feature extraction and unknown obstacles, we develop an integrated approach that combines the Bayesian-network based semantic segmentation with a self-learning method to enhance situational awareness of UAVs. Detailed analysis for the outdoor experimental data shows that the integrated method developed in this paper improves robustness of situational awareness for autonomous taxiing.
Funding
This work was supported by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Autonomous and Intelligent Systems programme under the grant number EP/J011525/1 with BAE Systems as the leading industrial partner
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
IET Intelligent Transport SystemsCitation
LU, B. ...et al., 2018. Aerodrome situational awareness of unmanned aircraft: an integrated self-learning approach with Bayesian network semantic segmentation. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 12(8), pp. 868-874.Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Acceptance date
2018-05-08Publication date
2018-05-09Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IET under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The data used in this research are openly available from the data archive at: https:// doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.6293513.v1.ISSN
1751-956XeISSN
1751-9578Publisher version
Language
- en