Abstract:This article investigates target pose estimation methods for co-axial dual-rotor drone grasping applications, proposing the EPRO-CDPN model for drone target pose estimation based on CDPN. The front-end target detector employs an improved YOLO network algorithm to enhance its target detection capability. An attention mechanism is introduced to enable the model to focus on critical feature information, strengthening the feature fusion between channels during the network training process. The traditional PnP method is replaced with EPRO-PnP, transforming the conventional solving process into a prediction of pose probability distribution. The entire pose estimation network is implemented as an end-to-end network. The pose estimation network model has undergone performance testing on the public dataset LineMod and a self-created dataset, conducting grasping experiments with the co-axial dual-rotor drone as the target object to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the pose estimation algorithm. The detection accuracy exceeds 95%, with a fast detection speed achieving 35.2 frames per second, enabling real-time target pose estimation and laying the groundwork for research and experimental schemes for visually guided robotic arm automatic grasping and recovery of the co-axial drone.