DEVELOPING A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR FACILITATING DRONE LANDING
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Drones are one of the leading technological improvements of the 21st century and have a wide range of use in different fields of human endeavor: Military, Retail, and Medicine
amongst other fields. The increasing use of drone in day to day like unfortunately comes with dangers as the number of damages and injuries increase with the increase in use of
drones especially with respect to safely landing of the drones in cases of emergency. In Particular the use of autonomous drones has also seen increase number of usage in recent times. These unmanned aerial vehicles can perform majority of drone activities such as navigation, acceleration, landing, surveillance e.t.c with little to no human intervention. Landing is one such activity that yields dangers such as injury or loss of property. To mitigate this problem, this study aims to develop a model to analyze images and determine if the image represents a landmark that is safe for emergency landing of the drones. Across Literature several approaches exist to achieve autonomous drone landing, it can be broken down broadly into visual and non-visual approaches. Our study focuses on the visual approach, utilizing landmark images captured by the drone live camera.The image will then be processed by the deep learning model that utilizes convolutional neural network that will predict if the image is a safe landmark for landing. The other visual approach involves using a marker or co-operative target to mark where is safe for the
drone to land with the obvious drawback of needing to pre-install the marker. Our solution also mitigates the need to have a marker installed before autonomous drone landing can
be accomplished.
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Q Science (General), QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science