Generally the search and rescue missions in the case of monitoring operations, natural and man-made disasters mainly rely on manned aerial vehicles. But these methods were highly risky for human pilot or rescuers because these included... more
Generally the search and rescue missions in the case of monitoring operations, natural and man-made disasters mainly rely on manned aerial vehicles. But these methods were highly risky for human pilot or rescuers because these included high navigation precision and long operation times, These unmanned aerial vehicles were used only in GPS prone areas based on an inbuilt map. These drawbacks are overcome in this proposed paper by designing a vision-controlled hexacopter which provides vision-controlled flying in GPS-denied environments. It consists of two stages: The onboard stage runs the visual odometry algorithm and the off-board stage runs the localization & mapping algorithm.
