Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

Autonomous and adaptive navigation for terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles

R Zhang, Y Wu, L Zhang, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles bloom in both academia and industry because they
incorporate both the high mobility of aerial vehicles and the long endurance of ground …

Bubble planner: Planning high-speed smooth quadrotor trajectories using receding corridors

Y Ren, F Zhu, W Liu, Z Wang, Y Lin… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors are agile platforms. With human experts, they can perform extremely high-speed
flights in cluttered environments. However, fully autonomous flight at high speed remains a …

A multi-stage deep reinforcement learning with search-based optimization for air–ground unmanned system navigation

X Chen, Y Qi, Y Yin, Y Chen, L Liu, H Chen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
An important challenge for air–ground unmanned systems achieving autonomy is
navigation, which is essential for them to accomplish various tasks in unknown …

Learning-based 3d occupancy prediction for autonomous navigation in occluded environments

L Wang, H Ye, Q Wang, Y Gao, C Xu… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In autonomous navigation, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments,
leaving a significant amount of space unknown. In practice, treating the unknown space in …

Robust and efficient trajectory replanning based on guiding path for quadrotor fast autonomous flight

Y Zhao, L Yan, Y Chen, J Dai, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Path planning is one of the key parts of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fast autonomous
flight in an unknown cluttered environment. However, real-time and stability remain a …

A Hybrid LiDAR-Based Mapping Framework for Efficient Path Planning of AGVs in a Massive Indoor Environment

H Wen, Z Song, S Liu, Z Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning is a computation-consuming task for autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) in a
massive indoor environment, especially for AGVs having limited computing resources …

Obstacle-aware topological planning over polyhedral representation for quadrotors

J Gao, F He, W Zhang, Y Yao - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel mapping-planning framework for autonomous quadrotor
navigation. First, a polyhedron-based mapping algorithm is presented to fully exploit the …

Robust Planning System for Fast Autonomous Flight in Complex Unknown Environment Using Sparse Directed Frontier Points

Y Zhao, L Yan, J Dai, X Hu, P Wei, H Xie - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Path planning is one of the key parts of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fast autonomous
flight in cluttered environments. However, it remains a challenge to efficiently generate a …

Model-Free Guidance Method for Drones in Complex Environments Using Direct Policy Exploration and Optimization

H Liu, S Suzuki - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, drones have become lighter, with longer hang times, and exhibit
more agile performance. To maximize their capabilities during flights in complex …