A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

A review on communication protocols for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for inspection application

L Shi, NJH Marcano, RH Jacobsen - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2021 - Elsevier
The communication system is a critical part of the system design for the autonomous
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It has to address different considerations, including …

Cooperative autonomous search, grasping, and delivering in a treasure hunt scenario by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles

V Spurný, T Báča, M Saska, R Pěnička… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of autonomous cooperative localization, grasping and
delivering of colored ferrous objects by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the …

A decentralized multi-agent unmanned aerial system to search, pick up, and relocate objects

R Bähnemann, D Schindler, M Kamel… - … on Safety, Security …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a fully integrated autonomous multirobot aerial system for finding and collecting
moving and static objects with unknown locations. This task addresses multiple relevant …

Autonomous hybrid ground/aerial mobility in unknown environments

DD Fan, R Thakker, T Bartlett, MB Miled… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid ground and aerial vehicles can possess distinct advantages over ground-only or
flight-only designs in terms of energy savings and increased mobility. In this work we outline …

Vision techniques for on‐board detection, following, and mapping of moving targets

P Štěpán, T Krajník, M Petrlík… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents computer vision modules of a multi‐unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
system, which scored gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Mohamed Bin Zayed …

The ETH‐MAV team in the MBZ international robotics challenge

R Bähnemann, M Pantic, M Popović… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study describes the hardware and software systems of the Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV)
platforms used by the ETH Zurich team in the 2017 Mohamed Bin Zayed International …

Rollocopter: An energy-aware hybrid aerial-ground mobility for extreme terrains

S Sabet, AA Agha-Mohammadi… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we design and model a new hybrid aerial-ground mobility system concept for
extreme terrains referred to as Rollocopter. The platform would uses common multi-rotor …

Improving the reliability of pick-and-place with aerial vehicles through fault-tolerant software and a custom magnetic end-effector

G Garimella, M Sheckells, S Kim… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial manipulation is an emerging field in robotics with various potential applications such
as transport and delivery, agriculture, and, infrastructure inspection. To deploy aerial …

Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2017: Fast landing on a moving target and treasure hunting with a team of micro aerial vehicles

M Beul, M Nieuwenhuisen, J Quenzel… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 has
defined ambitious new benchmarks to advance the state‐of‐the‐art in autonomous …