Real-time object detection is crucial for many applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as reconnaissance and surveillance, search-and-rescue, and infrastructure inspection. In the last few years, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged as a powerful class of models for recognizing image content, and are widely considered in the computer vision community to be the de facto standard approach for most problems. This paper aims to use a visual-based control mechanism to control a quadrotor, which is in pursuit of a target. The nonlinear nature of a quadrotor, on the one hand, and the difficulty of obtaining an exact model for it, on the other hand, constitute two serious challenges in designing a controller for this UAV. A potential solution for such problems is the use of intelligent control methods such as those that rely on artificial neural networks. A novel technique based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is proposed in this work for the identification and tracking of targets. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is used for this purpose. Experimental results and simulations are shown to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method for target tracking.
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