Survey on computer vision for UAVs: Current developments and trends

C Kanellakis, G Nikolakopoulos - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased
spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge …

Multi-UAV collaborative absolute vision positioning and navigation: a survey and discussion

P Tong, X Yang, Y Yang, W Liu, P Wu - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly facilitated the lives of
humans. Due to the mass manufacturing of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles and the …

CCM‐SLAM: Robust and efficient centralized collaborative monocular simultaneous localization and mapping for robotic teams

P Schmuck, M Chli - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic collaboration promises increased robustness and efficiency of missions with great
potential in applications, such as search‐and‐rescue and agriculture. Multiagent …

Multi-uav collaborative monocular slam

P Schmuck, M Chli - 2017 IEEE International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With systems performing Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) from a single
robot reaching considerable maturity, the possibility of employing a team of robots to …

Omni-swarm: A decentralized omnidirectional visual–inertial–uwb state estimation system for aerial swarms

H Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhou, L Wang, X Yao… - Ieee transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous
aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas; yet, it remains a highly challenging research …

Online relative positioning of autonomous vehicles using signals of opportunity

N Souli, P Kolios, G Ellinas - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To fully realize the potential of autonomous aerial vehicles, a reliable, robust, and accurate
navigation system is required. Current technologies composing such a system include stand …

CVI-SLAM—collaborative visual-inertial SLAM

M Karrer, P Schmuck, M Chli - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With robotic perception constituting the biggest impediment before robots are ready for
employment in real missions, the promise of more efficient and robust robotic perception in …

A review of collaborative air-ground robots research

C Liu, J Zhao, N Sun - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
The collaboration of heterogeneous robots is a hot topic in multi-intelligent agents,
characterized by wide-area coverage and high environmental adaptability. Compared with a …

Multi-agent system for rogue drone interception

N Souli, P Kolios, G Ellinas - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multitude of applications based on unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), in conjunction with
the UAVs' diminishing costs and increasing capabilities, present a major threat to public …

Multi-robot relative positioning and orientation system based on UWB range and graph optimization

S Zheng, Z Li, Y Yin, Y Liu, H Zhang, P Zheng, X Zou - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
The relative position and orientation estimation is one of the most fundamental components
for multi-robot systems, while it still remains an open and challenging research topic in …