Vision aided navigation for unmanned helicoptersVision aided navigation for unmanned helicopters Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2015-10-072009enThe development of a vision system to aid the autonomous navigation of an unmanned helicopter, primarily based on inertial sensors and GPS data, is presented. An unmanned helicopter has been equipped with appropriate sensors and a vision system fitted on a custom pan-tilt mechanism. Robust software, based on the Open Computer Vision Library (OpenCV), has been developed for handling images and video from a camera. Our implementation involves real time object recognition, histogram matching for real time video streaming, pattern matching and object tracking. Software implemented in C++ interacts with Matlab in order to aid the autonomous navigation of the helicopter. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1245 - 125017th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation Tsourveloudis Nikolaos Τσουρβελουδης Νικολαος Diomidis Katzourakis Nikos I. Vitzilaios IEEE Helicopters--Pilots helicopter pilots helicopters pilots Human factors in helicopter piloting helicopters piloting human factors human factors in helicopter piloting