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Autonomous Navigation System for a Delivery Drone
The use of delivery services is an increasing trend worldwide, further
enhanced by the COVID pandemic. In this context, drone delivery systems are of
great interest as they may allow for faster and cheaper deliveries. This paper
presents a navigation system that makes feasible the delivery of parcels with
autonomous drones. The system generates a path between a start and a final
point and controls the drone to follow this path based on its localization
obtained through GPS, 9DoF IMU, and barometer. In the landing phase,
information of poses estimated by a marker (ArUco) detection technique using a
camera, ultra-wideband (UWB) devices, and the drone's software estimation are
merged by utilizing an Extended Kalman Filter algorithm to improve the landing
precision. A vector field-based method controls the drone to follow the desired
path smoothly, reducing vibrations or harsh movements that could harm the
transported parcel. Real experiments validate the delivery strategy and allow
to evaluate the performance of the adopted techniques. Preliminary results
state the viability of our proposal for autonomous drone delivery.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figures, extended version of an paper published at the
XXIII Brazilian Congress of Automatica, entitled "Desenvolvimento de um drone
aut\^onomo para tarefas de entrega de carga