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  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Bio-inspired Sensing
  • Environmental Monitoring

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  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require accurate environmental perception for safe navigation.
  • Biosonar, inspired by bat echolocation, offers a potential sensing modality for UAVs in complex environments.
  • Estimating foliage distribution is crucial for UAVs operating in forested areas.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the use of biosonar for estimating foliage distribution in a simulated forest environment for UAV navigation.
  • To compare different signal processing techniques for foliage echo analysis.
  • To validate the accuracy of the proposed biosonar-based foliage estimation method.

Main Methods:

  • A simulated forest environment was created to generate bat-inspired biosonar echoes.
  • Foliage echoes were analyzed using both batch processing and wavelet scattering techniques coupled with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.
  • The methods were validated across various simulated leaf distribution densities.

Main Results:

  • A simple batch processing method effectively estimated sparsely distributed leaves.
  • Wavelet scattering and SVM achieved high accuracy in estimating densely distributed leaves.
  • The combined approach demonstrated 97% accuracy in estimating thickly distributed foliage.

Conclusions:

  • Biosonar is a viable technology for UAVs to assess forest foliage density.
  • Advanced signal processing techniques like wavelet scattering and SVM are crucial for dense foliage environments.
  • This research contributes to the development of autonomous navigation systems for UAVs in complex natural settings.