Autonomous Cooperation Between UAV and UGV to Improve Navigation and Environmental Monitoring in Rough Environments

An architecture to allow cooperation between an UGV and an UAV is proposed. The UAV can autonomously follow the UGV, by using an image processing algorithm. In this way aerial images are provided that can help trajectory planning in rough environments, via a developed webGIS platform.

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