Approach to development of an information-control system for landing an unmanned aerial vehicle

The paper deals with the solution of the problem of ensuring precision automatic landing of unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with a typical set of sensors and a flight controller with an implemented control system by means of a cheap and compact embedded information-control system, using computer vision and visual markers of various types for positioning the unmanned aircraft relative to the landing site. The main direction of application of the proposed information-control system is to expand the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to solve the problems of maritime and inland waterway transport, which has suitable sites of limited size. The developed information-control system will make it possible to operate the above vehicles in automatic mode to solve various tasks, in particular ship inspections, searches for shoals of commercial fish, communications, marine logistics, etc. To confirm the system's operability, the results of modeling and its field tests on land using experimental unmanned aerial vehicle are presented. Sea trials are planned for the next navigation period of 2025.