A HYBRID AUTONOMOUS VISUAL TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR MICRO AERIAL VEHICLES

An efficient image tracking algorithm plays a major role in an autonomous surveillance and monitoring the environment from micro aerial vehicle. A hybrid autonomous visual tracking algorithm is proposed based on cam - shift and extended kalman filter estimat or for micro aerial vehicle. The proposed algorithm identifies and tracks the ground moving target continuously , even ground moving target moves quickly , and the color of the other ground moving target or background similar to that of the ground moving tar get. A MATLAB based simulation tool is developed for determining the proposed algorithm performance. The results exhibit that the proposed algorithm tracks the ground moving target very accurately