Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming

The support of major sporting events invariably necessitates funding from television, news and event coverage. Whilst traditional football, tennis or golfing events may be covered by a semi- stationary cameraman on foot, sports events in larger or inaccessible venues makes video coverage difficult a...

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Main Authors: Iastrebov, Viatcheslav, Wong, Choon Yue, Pang, Wee Ching, Seet, Gerald
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Published: 2020
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1381832020-09-26T21:52:46Z Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming Iastrebov, Viatcheslav Wong, Choon Yue Pang, Wee Ching Seet, Gerald School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology (ICSST 2014) Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) Research Techno Plaza Robotics Research Centre Engineering::Mechanical engineering GPS Localization Infrared Beacon Tracking Localization The support of major sporting events invariably necessitates funding from television, news and event coverage. Whilst traditional football, tennis or golfing events may be covered by a semi- stationary cameraman on foot, sports events in larger or inaccessible venues makes video coverage difficult and expensive. Our attempt aims to evaluate the gambit of sporting events to realize a cost effective solution to providing semi-automated video coverage. While technology using the global positioning system may be useful to locate a person within a large area, it is not sufficiently effective to provide a stable mobile camera platform in the targeted applications. Our goal is to deploy an autonomous UAV near the target within the accuracy of GPS and localize it with a secondary beacon for tracking an athlete. We consider the use of radio frequency and infrared beacons to orient the flying camera towards the target. The athlete wears these beacons on his clothing or has them installed on his vehicle. A framework for a UAV-based motion-tracking system using GPS localization which is augmented with beacon tracking is proposed. Our review of the literature suggests that the use of infrared beacons is more suited than beacons using radio frequency due to size and weight concerns. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) Published version 2020-04-28T03:37:53Z 2020-04-28T03:37:53Z 2014 Conference Paper Iastrebov, V., Wong, C. Y., Pang, W. C., & Seet, G. (2014). Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming. 1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology (ICSST 2014). https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138183 en © 2014 The Author(s). All rights reserved. This paper was published by 1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology in 1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology (ICSST 2014) and is made available with permission of The Author(s). application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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country Singapore
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topic Engineering::Mechanical engineering
GPS Localization
Infrared Beacon Tracking Localization
spellingShingle Engineering::Mechanical engineering
GPS Localization
Infrared Beacon Tracking Localization
Iastrebov, Viatcheslav
Wong, Choon Yue
Pang, Wee Ching
Seet, Gerald
Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
description The support of major sporting events invariably necessitates funding from television, news and event coverage. Whilst traditional football, tennis or golfing events may be covered by a semi- stationary cameraman on foot, sports events in larger or inaccessible venues makes video coverage difficult and expensive. Our attempt aims to evaluate the gambit of sporting events to realize a cost effective solution to providing semi-automated video coverage. While technology using the global positioning system may be useful to locate a person within a large area, it is not sufficiently effective to provide a stable mobile camera platform in the targeted applications. Our goal is to deploy an autonomous UAV near the target within the accuracy of GPS and localize it with a secondary beacon for tracking an athlete. We consider the use of radio frequency and infrared beacons to orient the flying camera towards the target. The athlete wears these beacons on his clothing or has them installed on his vehicle. A framework for a UAV-based motion-tracking system using GPS localization which is augmented with beacon tracking is proposed. Our review of the literature suggests that the use of infrared beacons is more suited than beacons using radio frequency due to size and weight concerns.
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Iastrebov, Viatcheslav
Wong, Choon Yue
Pang, Wee Ching
Seet, Gerald
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author Iastrebov, Viatcheslav
Wong, Choon Yue
Pang, Wee Ching
Seet, Gerald
author_sort Iastrebov, Viatcheslav
title Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
title_short Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
title_full Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
title_fullStr Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
title_full_unstemmed Motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
title_sort motion tracking drone for extreme sports filming
publishDate 2020
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