Dynamic optimization and heuristics based online coverage path planning in 3D environment for UAVs

AG Melo, MF Pinto, ALM Marcato, LM Honório… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Path planning is one of the most important issues in the robotics field, being applied in many
domains ranging from aerospace technology and military tasks to manufacturing and …

Hybrid methodology based on computational vision and sensor fusion for assisting autonomous UAV on offshore messenger cable transfer operation

GS Ramos, MF Pinto, FO Coelho, LM Honório… - Robotica, 2022 - cambridge.org
The recent development of new offshore projects in pre-salt deepwater fields has placed
offshore loading operations as the main production outflow alternative, increasing the …

Unmanned aerial vehicle for transmission line inspection using an extended Kalman filter with colored electromagnetic interference

MF da Silva, LM Honório, ALM Marcato, VF Vidal… - ISA transactions, 2020 - Elsevier
Strong electromagnetic fields such as those generated by power stations and transmission
lines cause disturbances that affect the on-board sensors of an autonomous unmanned …

Fast real-time control allocation applied to over-actuated quadrotor tilt-rotor

MF Santos, LM Honório, APGM Moreira… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a novel light-weighted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an over-
actuated tilt-rotor quadrotor with an innovative control allocation technique, named as Fast …

Hull and aerial holonomic propulsion system design for optimal underwater sensor positioning in autonomous surface vessels

BA Regina, LM Honório, AAN Pancoti, MF Silva… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) sensors measure water inflows and are essential
to evaluate the Flow Curve (FC) of rivers. The FC is used to calibrate hydrological models …

UAV vision aided positioning system for location and landing

VF Vidal, LM Honório, MF Santos… - 2017 18th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The research and use of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have grown in attention and
new ideas in the last couple of decades, mainly due to technology improvement of its …

Ekf-based vision-assisted target tracking and approaching for autonomous uav in offshore mooring tasks

GS Ramos, DB Haddad, AL Barros… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the offshore oil and gas industry, the most productive fields are located in increasingly
distant waters, so the oil pipelines as a solution to transport the production become less …

Simulation and comparison between a linear and nonlinear technique applied to altitude control in quadcopters

MF Santos, VS Pereira, AC Ribeiro… - 2017 18th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By definition, UAV means Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which in fact has been growing in the
recent years, encouraged by technological developments, especially in the electronics and …

Model derivation, attitude control and Kalman filter estimation of a quadcopter

A Kaba, A Ermeydan, E Kiyak - 2017 4th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently unmanned aerial vehicles have become one of the most interesting research
topics among scientists. Although researchers are very concerned in this area, they …

[HTML][HTML] Performance evaluation of bundle adjustment with population based optimization algorithms applied to panoramic image stitching

MJR Aguiar, TR Alves, LM Honório, ICS Junior… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The image stitching process is based on the alignment and composition of multiple images
that represent parts of a 3D scene. The automatic construction of panoramas from multiple …