Research Article

Autonomous Landing of a Micro Aerial Vehicle on a Moving Platform Using a Composite Landmark

Table 2

Landing comparison experiment results (20 experiments).

Motion modelParametersBiasAVTAVTLR/SRLR/SR
(Encoder 1)(R2D-MPL)(Method 3)(R2D-MPL)(Method 3)

Line0.00 m/s12.4 s14.2 s0.18 m/90%0.25 m/85%
Line0.00 m/s13.2 s15.7 s0.21 m/85%0.27 m/75%
Line0.15 m/s13.6 s22.4 s0.22 m/80%0.38 m/25%
Line0.30 m/s14.1 s25.1 s0.25 m/85%0.40 m/5%
Circle0.00 m/s15.7 s23.2 s0.21 m/80%0.42 m/40%
Circle0.00 m/s17.4 s27.4 s0.24 m/85%0.41 m/30%
Circle0.15 m/s18.1 sFail0.28 m/75%Fail
Circle0.30 m/s19.5 sFail0.32 m/80%Fail