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03/13/2023
Semantics-aware Exploration and Inspection Path Planning
This paper contributes a novel strategy for semantics-aware autonomous e...
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12/06/2022
Collision-tolerant Aerial Robots: A Survey
As aerial robots are tasked to navigate environments of increased comple...
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08/02/2022
Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Underground Environments
This paper reports on the state of the art in underground SLAM by discus...
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05/11/2022
Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments
This work contributes a marsupial robotic system-of-systems involving a ...
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01/10/2022
Motion Primitives-based Navigation Planning using Deep Collision Prediction
This paper contributes a method to design a novel navigation planner exp...
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06/01/2021
Resource-aware Online Parameter Adaptation for Computationally-constrained Visual-Inertial Navigation Systems
In this paper, a computational resources-aware parameter adaptation meth...
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12/29/2020
Visual-Thermal Camera Dataset Release and Multi-Modal Alignment without Calibration Information
This report accompanies a dataset release on visual and thermal camera d...
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12/06/2020
Appendix for the Motion Primitives-based Path Planning for Fast and Agile Exploration Method
This manuscript presents enhancements on our motion-primitives explorati...
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11/22/2020
Model Predictive Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles: A Survey
This paper presents a review of the design and application of model pred...
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06/15/2020
Anomalous Motion Detection on Highway Using Deep Learning
Research in visual anomaly detection draws much interest due to its appl...
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05/09/2020
Autonomous Aerial Robotic Surveying and Mapping with Application to Construction Operations
In this paper we present an overview of the methods and systems that giv...
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04/06/2020
Towards a Science of Resilient Robotic Autonomy
This discussion paper aims to support the argument process for the need ...
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11/24/2019
The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Shape and Motion Planning
This paper presents the design concept, modeling and motion planning sol...
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04/16/2019
Are State-of-the-art Visual Place Recognition Techniques any Good for Aerial Robotics?
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the fron...
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03/05/2019
Vision-Depth Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments
This paper proposes a method for tight fusion of visual, depth and inert...
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03/05/2019
Visual-Thermal Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments
With an ever-widening domain of aerial robotic applications, including m...
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03/03/2019
Keyframe-based Direct Thermal-Inertial Odometry
This paper proposes an approach for fusing direct radiometric data from ...
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03/02/2019
Marker based Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots in Obscurant Filled Environments
For robotic inspection tasks in known environments fiducial markers prov...
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12/12/2018
Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis-based Autonomous Memoryless Search Under Sparse Rewards
Autonomous robots are commonly tasked with the problem of area explorati...
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11/16/2018
Optical Flow Based Background Subtraction with a Moving Camera: Application to Autonomous Driving
In this research we present a novel algorithm for background subtraction...
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04/11/2018
Design and Control of an Aerial Manipulator for Contact-based Inspection
Manipulator dynamics, external forces and moments raise issues in stabil...
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01/24/2018
Visual-Inertial Odometry-enhanced Geometrically Stable ICP for Mapping Applications using Aerial Robots
This paper presents a visual-inertial odometry-enhanced geometrically st...
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11/28/2017