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Visual Servoing of Unmanned Surface Vehicle from Small Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

@article{Karnan2017VisualSO,
  title={Visual Servoing of Unmanned Surface Vehicle from Small Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle},
  author={Haresh Karnan and Aritra Biswas and Pranav Vaidik Dhulipala and Janet S. Dufek and Robin R. Murphy},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2017},
  volume={abs/1710.02932}
}
This paper presents an algorithm and the implementation of a motor schema to aid the visual localization subsystem of the ongoing EMILY project at Texas A and M University. The EMILY project aims to team an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to augment the search and rescue of marine casualties during an emergency response phase. The USV is designed to serve as a flotation device once it reaches the victims. A live video feed from the UAV is provided to the… 
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