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07/31/2023
Visual Geo-localization with Self-supervised Representation Learning
Visual Geo-localization (VG) has emerged as a significant research area,...
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06/23/2023
Geometric Fault-Tolerant Control of Quadrotors in Case of Rotor Failures: An Attitude Based Comparative Study
The ability of aerial robots to operate in the presence of failures is c...
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06/08/2023
AutoCharge: Autonomous Charging for Perpetual Quadrotor Missions
Battery endurance represents a key challenge for long-term autonomy and ...
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06/06/2023
BackpropTools: A Fast, Portable Deep Reinforcement Learning Library for Continuous Control
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been demonstrated to yield capable ...
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06/05/2023
Long-range UAV Thermal Geo-localization with Satellite Imagery
Onboard sensors, such as cameras and thermal sensors, have emerged as ef...
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03/15/2023
PENet: A Joint Panoptic Edge Detection Network
In recent years, compact and efficient scene understanding representatio...
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03/14/2023
GaPT: Gaussian Process Toolkit for Online Regression with Application to Learning Quadrotor Dynamics
Gaussian Processes (GPs) are expressive models for capturing signal stat...
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03/10/2023
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Transportation and Manipulation of Cable Suspended Payloads with Multiple Quadrotors
Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) such as quadrotors equipped with...
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10/23/2022
Active Learning of Discrete-Time Dynamics for Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control
Model-based control requires an accurate model of the system dynamics fo...
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10/12/2022
Safety-Aware Human-Robot Collaborative Transportation and Manipulation with Multiple MAVs
Human-robot interaction will play an essential role in many future indus...
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09/25/2022
Vision-based Perimeter Defense via Multiview Pose Estimation
Previous studies in the perimeter defense game have largely focused on t...
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07/17/2022
Vision-based Relative Detection and Tracking for Teams of Micro Aerial Vehicles
In this paper, we address the vision-based detection and tracking proble...
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06/07/2022
Physics-Inspired Temporal Learning of Quadrotor Dynamics for Accurate Model Predictive Trajectory Tracking
Accurately modeling quadrotor's system dynamics is critical for guarante...
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05/10/2022
RotorTM: A Flexible Simulator for Aerial Transportation and Manipulation
Low-cost autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to h...
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04/05/2022
Robust Active Visual Perching with Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces
Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles are deployed for a variety tasks includ...
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02/15/2022
Learning Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors
Aerial robots can enhance their safe and agile navigation in complex and...
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02/15/2022
Tombo Propeller: Bio-Inspired Deformable Structure toward Collision-Accommodated Control for Drones
There is a growing need for vertical take-off and landing vehicles, incl...
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01/05/2022
Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception with Graph Neural Networks
Multi-robot systems such as swarms of aerial robots are naturally suited...
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09/07/2021
Defending a Perimeter from a Ground Intruder Using an Aerial Defender: Theory and Practice
The perimeter defense game has received interest in recent years as a va...
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07/27/2021
VIPose: Real-time Visual-Inertial 6D Object Pose Tracking
Estimating the 6D pose of objects is beneficial for robotics tasks such ...
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07/23/2021
Aggressive Visual Perching with Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces
Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to be employe...
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07/22/2021
PCMPC: Perception-Constrained Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors with Suspended Loads using a Single Camera and IMU
In this paper, we address the Perception–Constrained Model Predictive Co...
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07/08/2021
Design and Deployment of an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Urban Firefighting Scenarios
Autonomous mobile robots have the potential to solve missions that are e...
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01/13/2021
Comparative Analysis of Agent-Oriented Task Assignment and Path Planning Algorithms Applied to Drone Swarms
Autonomous drone swarms are a burgeoning technology with significant app...
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11/16/2020
Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Localization, Grasping and Precise Placement of Construction Material in a Semi-structured Environment
Mobile manipulators have the potential to revolutionize modern agricultu...
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04/03/2019
MAVNet: an Effective Semantic Segmentation Micro-Network for MAV-based Tasks
Real-time image semantic segmentation is an essential capability to enha...
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03/14/2019
Nuclear Environments Inspection with Micro Aerial Vehicles: Algorithms and Experiments
In this work, we address the estimation, planning, control and mapping p...
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09/18/2018
U-Net for MAV-based Penstock Inspection: an Investigation of Focal Loss in Multi-class Segmentation for Corrosion Identification
Periodical inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure such as...
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12/06/2017