A collaborative Unmanned Helicopter control strategy for image compression and wireless transmission

G Nikolakopoulos; K Alexis; I Arvanitakis; A Tzes

doi:10.1109/MED.2010.5547627

A collaborative Unmanned Helicopter control strategy for image compression and wireless transmission

G Nikolakopoulos, K Alexis, I Arvanitakis, A Tzes

University of Patras

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Abstract

Unmanned Helicopters operate in harsh environments and their effective stabilization while in hovering mode is desired in order to capture a scenery image. The image's sharpness and contrast is affected by the camera's-CCD exposure time. To increase this time interval, a model predictive controller is applied for attitude control purposes of an Unmanned quadrotor Helicopter (UqH). The acquired image by a camera attached to the UqH is compressed using a QuadTree Decomposition (QTD) scheme. The level of compression is dictated by the available bandwidth and the overall Quality of Service (QoS) of the available wireless downlink. The attributes of the controller are coupled to the QTD-compression level and experimental studies are offered to prove the efficiency of the suggested scheme.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1206-1211
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424480920
ISBN (Print)	9781424480913
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2010.5547627
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation - Marrakech, Morocco Duration: 23 Jun 2010 → 25 Jun 2010 Conference number: 18

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Conference	18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Abbreviated title	MED 2010
Country/Territory	Morocco
City	Marrakech
Period	23/06/10 → 25/06/10

Keywords

Image coding
Attitude control
Data compression
Helicopters
Predictive Control
Radio links
Remotely operated vehicles
Visual communication

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Nikolakopoulos, G, Alexis, K, Arvanitakis, I & Tzes, A 2010, A collaborative Unmanned Helicopter control strategy for image compression and wireless transmission. in 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. IEEE, pp. 1206-1211, 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Marrakech, Morocco, 23/06/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2010.5547627

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