Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft

P Sareh, P Chermprayong, M Emmanuelli… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Applications of aerial robots are progressively expanding into complex urban and natural
environments. Despite remarkable advancements in the field, robotic rotorcraft is still …

Swarm distribution and deployment for cooperative surveillance by micro-aerial vehicles

M Saska, V Vonásek, J Chudoba, J Thomas… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
The task of cooperative surveillance of pre-selected Areas of Interest (AoI) in outdoor
environments by groups of closely cooperating Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is tackled in …

Autonomous deployment of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles in cooperative surveillance

M Saska, J Chudoba, L Přeučil… - 2014 International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An algorithm for autonomous deployment of groups of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in the
cooperative surveillance task is presented in this paper. The algorithm enables to find a …

Fractal trajectories for online non-uniform aerial coverage

SA Sadat, J Wawerla, R Vaughan - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel method for non-uniform terrain coverage using Unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs). The existing methods for coverage path planning consider a uniformly …

Autonomous obstacle avoidance of an unmanned surface vehicle based on cooperative manoeuvring

P Wu, S Xie, H Liu, M Li, H Li, Y Peng, X Li… - Industrial robot: an …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose Autonomous obstacle avoidance is important in unmanned surface vehicle (USV)
navigation. Although the result of obstacle detection is often inaccurate because of the …

Autonomous and cooperative design of the monitor positions for a team of uavs to maximize the quantity and quality of detected objects

DI Koutras, AC Kapoutsis… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter tackles the problem of positioning a swarm of UAVs inside a completely unknown
terrain, having as objective to maximize the overall situational awareness. The situational …

Coverage optimization in the cooperative surveillance task using multiple micro aerial vehicles

M Petrlík, V Vonásek, M Saska - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the task of cooperative surveillance using Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), MAVs
cooperatively observe a given set of Areas of Interest (AoI). The missions are usually …

Bridging the gap between visual servoing and visual SLAM: A novel integrated interactive framework

C Li, X Zhang, H Gao, R Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For pose stabilization task of nonholonomic mobile robots, this article proposes a novel
integrated interactive framework, bridging the gap between visual servoing and …

Recursive non-uniform coverage of unknown terrains for uavs

SA Sadat, J Wawerla… - 2014 IEEE/RSJ …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is one of the compelling applications of UAVs. The existing methods for
coverage path planning assume a uniformly interesting target area. However in many real …

Distributed and collaborative monocular simultaneous localization and mapping for multi-robot systems in large-scale environments

H Zhang, X Chen, H Lu, J Xiao - International Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we propose a distributed and collaborative monocular simultaneous
localization and mapping system for the multi-robot system in large-scale environments …