Design and development of elliptical and quadrilateral shape tracking systems for UAV positioning and navigation

Abstract

Unmanned positioning and navigation system is gradually getting involved in more and more aspects of humans’ daily life. It provides a possibility to automatically control the moving vehicles. This meets the requirement from both the pursuit for a more convenient life, and the pursuit for a more serious attitude towards human life. Vision tracking system, or say real-time recognition system plays an important role in achieving the unmanned control. This real-time efficiency can be simply achieved with the help of a computer camera and a processer with sufficient working capacity given a well designed algorithm. This makes the vision tracking system have a brilliant future. This paper demonstrates the design and development process of the elliptical and quadrilateral tracking system. The selection of the efficient algorithm, the construction of the system based on C++ and the evaluation of the performance will be discussed. The implementation of the algorithms on ROS will also be demonstrated as the final step.