Asynchronous Event-based Line Tracking for Time-to-Contact Maneuvers in UAS

A. Gómez Eguíluz,J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez,J.R. Martínez-de Dios,A. Ollero,A. Gómez Eguíluz,J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez,J.R. Martínez-de Dios,A. Ollero

This paper presents an bio-inspired event-based perception scheme for agile aerial robot maneuvering. It tries to mimic birds, which perform purposeful maneuvers by closing the separation in the retinal image (w.r.t. the goal) to follow time-to-contact trajectories. The proposed approach is based on event cameras, also called artificial retinas, which provide fast response and robustness against m...