Autonomous Human-Following Drone for Monitoring a Pedestrian from Constant Distance and Direction
Hiroto Yamashita, Takashi Morimoto, Ikuhisa Mitsugami · 2021 IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE) · 2021
We propose an autonomous drone system that follows a pedestrian from a certain distance and direction for human video analysis without environmental constraints. The proposed system adopts human pose estimation via a monocular drone camera and calculates control parameters from the skeleton points. Specifically, our system uses 3D pose estimation to obtain information about human direction for following a moving subject from a certain direction. Experimental results in the real-world show that our system runs with reasonable response time and positional stability.