Research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been increasingly popular in the past
decades, and UAVs have been widely used in industrial inspection, remote sensing for …

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 …

Direct methods for visual odometry (VO) have gained popularity for their capability to exploit
information from all intensity gradients in the image. However, low computational speed as …

In this research chapter, we present our work on a universal grid map library for use as
mapping framework for mobile robotics. It is designed for a wide range of applications such …

Real-time object detection is crucial for many applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) such as reconnaissance and surveillance, search-and-rescue, and infrastructure …

Recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have provided an opportunity
to create autonomous devices, robots, and machines characterized particularly with the …

With the popularization and wide application of drones in military and civilian fields, the
safety of drones must be considered. At present, the failure and drop rates of drones are still …

The autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is still an open problem.
Previous work focused on the use of hand-crafted geometric features and sensor-data fusion …

Background In recent decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have developed rapidly
and been widely applied in many domains, including photography, reconstruction …

To reach a given destination safely and accurately, a micro aerial vehicle needs to be able
to avoid obstacles and minimize its state estimation uncertainty at the same time. To achieve …