iKAPP: an intelligent kite aerial photography platform

iKAPP：智能风筝航拍平台

• 批准号: EP/D058201/1
• 负责人: Mark Neal
• 金额: $ 10.82万
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD058201%2F1
• 关键词: iKAPP; intelligent; kite; aerial; photography

This project aims to develop an intelligent platform for taking aerial digital photographs using a kite to lift the platform. Thisintelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) will use an onboard computer and two cameras with different resolutions (levels of detail). The platform will hang from the kite line below the kite and will have a stabilization system to control the direction that thehigher resolution camera points in. This stabilization will be controlled both by lightweight solid-state gyroscopes and by using the views of the two cameras to decide how the platform is moving, and how to compensate for the movement. This is difficult because the platform must be light enough to be lifted by the kite as well as have a fast enough computer to be able to process the images faster than the platform moves.The completes iKAPP and its software will be test flown beneath a kite and when it works properly it will be used to survey an archaeological site (probably an iron age hillfort). The images that the iKAPP captures will then be compared with images obtained using normal aerial photography techniques (using an aeroplane).If the iKAPP works properly it will be useful for lots of different surveying tasks including environmental surveys, archaeological surveys, crop monitoring and other recconaissance activities.

本项目旨在开发一个智能平台，利用风筝提升平台进行航空数码照片拍摄。这个智能风筝航空摄影平台（iKAPP）将使用一台机载计算机和两台分辨率（细节层次）不同的相机。该平台将悬挂在风筝下面的风筝线上，并将有一个稳定系统来控制更高分辨率相机指向的方向。这种稳定性将由轻型固态陀螺仪控制，并通过使用两个摄像机的视图来决定平台如何移动以及如何补偿移动。这是很困难的，因为平台必须足够轻，可以被风筝举起来，并且有一个足够快的计算机，能够比平台移动更快地处理图像。完整的iKAPP和它的软件将在风筝下进行测试飞行，当它正常工作时，它将被用于调查考古遗址（可能是铁器时代的山堡）。iKAPP拍摄的图像将与使用普通航空摄影技术（使用飞机）获得的图像进行比较。如果iKAPP工作正常，它将用于许多不同的测量任务，包括环境调查，考古调查，作物监测和其他recconaissance活动。

项目成果

Development and Deployment of an Intelligent Kite Aerial Photography Platform (iKAPP) for Site Surveying and Image Acquisition

用于现场测量和图像采集的智能风筝航空摄影平台（iKAPP）的开发和部署

• DOI: 10.1002/rob.21448
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Journal of Field Robotics
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Murray J