Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

D Floreano, RJ Wood - nature, 2015 - nature.com
We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots—drones—that can autonomously fly in
natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence …

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

Fast-lio: A fast, robust lidar-inertial odometry package by tightly-coupled iterated kalman filter

W Xu, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry
framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated …

R3LIVE: A Robust, Real-time, RGB-colored, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual tightly-coupled state Estimation and mapping package

J Lin, F Zhang - 2022 International Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-Inertial-Visual sensor fusion framework termed R 3
LIVE, which takes advantage of measurement of LiDAR, inertial, and visual sensors to …

R LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping

J Lin, C Zheng, W Xu, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a robust, real-time tightly-coupled multi-sensor fusion framework,
which fuses measurements from LiDAR, inertial sensor, and visual camera to achieve robust …

Loam livox: A fast, robust, high-precision LiDAR odometry and mapping package for LiDARs of small FoV

J Lin, F Zhang - … IEEE international conference on robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LiDAR odometry and mapping (LOAM) has been playing an important role in autonomous
vehicles, due to its ability to simultaneously localize the robot's pose and build high …

Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot

S Kuindersma, R Deits, M Fallon, A Valenzuela… - Autonomous …, 2016 - Springer
This paper describes a collection of optimization algorithms for achieving dynamic planning,
control, and state estimation for a bipedal robot designed to operate reliably in complex …

Learning to fly by crashing

D Gandhi, L Pinto, A Gupta - 2017 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How do you learn to navigate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and avoid obstacles? One
approach is to use a small dataset collected by human experts: however, high capacity …

Deep drone racing: From simulation to reality with domain randomization

A Loquercio, E Kaufmann, R Ranftl… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under
severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges that limit the deployment of small …

Polynomial trajectory planning for aggressive quadrotor flight in dense indoor environments

C Richter, A Bry, N Roy - Robotics Research: The 16th International …, 2016 - Springer
We explore the challenges of planning trajectories for quadrotors through cluttered indoor
environments. We extend the existing work on polynomial trajectory generation by …