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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicles using machine learning for autonomous flight; state-of-the-art

SY Choi, D Cha - Advanced Robotics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, since researchers began to study on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),
UAVs have been integrated into today's everyday life, including civilian area and military …

Dynamic obstacle avoidance for quadrotors with event cameras

D Falanga, K Kleber, D Scaramuzza - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
Today's autonomous drones have reaction times of tens of milliseconds, which is not
enough for navigating fast in complex dynamic environments. To safely avoid fast moving …

Sgm-nets: Semi-global matching with neural networks

A Seki, M Pollefeys - … of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper deals with deep neural networks for predicting accurate dense disparity map with
Semi-global matching (SGM). SGM is a widely used regularization method for real scenes …

Efficient optical flow and stereo vision for velocity estimation and obstacle avoidance on an autonomous pocket drone

K McGuire, G De Croon, C De Wagter… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro Aerial Vehicles (FOV) are very suitable for flying in indoor environments, but
autonomous navigation is challenging due to their strict hardware limitations. This paper …

Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

[PDF][PDF] Patch Based Confidence Prediction for Dense Disparity Map.

A Seki, M Pollefeys - BMVC, 2016 - cvlibs.net
In this paper, we propose a novel method to predict the correctness of stereo
correspondences, which we call confidence, and a confidence fusion method for dense …

Image-based visual servoing of a quadrotor using virtual camera approach

D Zheng, H Wang, J Wang, S Chen… - IEEE/ASME …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an image-based visual servoing control law is proposed for a quadrotor
unmanned aerial vehicle using an on-board monocular camera and an inertial …

Robust vision-based obstacle avoidance for micro aerial vehicles in dynamic environments

J Lin, H Zhu, J Alonso-Mora - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an on-board vision-based approach for avoidance of moving
obstacles in dynamic environments. Our approach relies on an efficient obstacle detection …

Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation

H Chen, P Lu - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Avoiding hybrid obstacles in unknown scenarios with an efficient flight strategy is a key
challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. In this paper, we introduce a more …