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09/19/2023
Using an Uncrewed Surface Vehicle to Create a Volumetric Model of Non-Navigable Rivers and Other Shallow Bodies of Water
Non-navigable rivers and retention ponds play important roles in bufferi...
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09/18/2023
Differentiable Boustrophedon Path Plans
This paper introduces a differentiable representation for optimization o...
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09/05/2023
Improving Drone Imagery For Computer Vision/Machine Learning in Wilderness Search and Rescue
This paper describes gaps in acquisition of drone imagery that impair th...
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08/28/2023
Quantitative Data Analysis: CRASAR Small Unmanned Aerial Systems at Hurricane Ian
This paper provides a summary of the 281 sorties that were flown by the ...
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07/26/2023
Open Problems in Computer Vision for Wilderness SAR and The Search for Patricia Wu-Murad
This paper details the challenges in applying two computer vision system...
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03/22/2023
Wireless Network Demands of Data Products from Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems at Hurricane Ian
Data collected at Hurricane Ian (2022) quantifies the demands that small...
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01/11/2023
Analysis of Interior Rubble Void Spaces at Champlain Towers South Collapse
The 2021 Champlain Towers South Condominiums collapse in Surfside, Flori...
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02/24/2022
RescueNet: A High Resolution UAV Semantic Segmentation Benchmark Dataset for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment
Due to climate change, we can observe a recent surge of natural disaster...
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12/05/2020
FloodNet: A High Resolution Aerial Imagery Dataset for Post Flood Scene Understanding
Visual scene understanding is the core task in making any crucial decisi...
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10/19/2020
The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises
The recent coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the many challenges face...
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09/02/2020
Comprehensive Semantic Segmentation on High Resolution UAV Imagery for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment
In this paper, we present a large-scale hurricane Michael dataset for vi...
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09/09/2019
Robot Risk-Awareness by Formal Risk Reasoning and Planning
This paper proposes a formal robot motion risk reasoning framework and d...
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04/16/2019
Explicit Motion Risk Representation
This paper presents a formal definition and explicit representation of r...
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04/16/2019
Benchmarking Tether-based UAV Motion Primitives
This paper proposes and benchmarks two tether-based motion primitives fo...
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03/07/2019
Explicit-risk-aware Path Planning with Reward Maximization
This paper develops a path planner that minimizes risk (e.g. motion exec...
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11/06/2018
Motion Planning for a UAV with a Straight or Kinked Tether
This paper develops and compares two motion planning algorithms for a te...
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10/09/2017