A real-time system for detection and avoidance of dynamic obstacles for micro UAVs

Abstract

In this work, a system for obstacle detection is proposed for mini UAVs. The proposed system is based on optical flow estimation with weighted image blocks in the streamed video sequence. Conducted experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and methods used in the system. The methods and algorithms described in this paper are versatile enough and are implemented in various fields, which use autonomous navigation system.