Fiducial markers for pose estimation: Overview, applications and experimental comparison of the artag, apriltag, aruco and stag markers

M Kalaitzakis, B Cain, S Carroll, A Ambrosi… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
Robust localization is critical for the navigation and control of mobile robots. Global
Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), and Simultaneous …

A decade of UAV docking stations: A brief overview of mobile and fixed landing platforms

CG Grlj, N Krznar, M Pranjić - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have advanced rapidly in the last two decades with the
advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. It is crucial, however, to …

Autonomous navigation system for a delivery drone

VRF Miranda, AMC Rezende, TL Rocha… - Journal of Control …, 2022 - Springer
The use of delivery services is an increasing trend worldwide, further enhanced by the
COVID pandemic. In this context, drone delivery systems are of great interest as they may …

[HTML][HTML] ArTuga: A novel multimodal fiducial marker for aerial robotics

RM Claro, DB Silva, AM Pinto - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract For Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (VTOL UAVs) to
operate autonomously and effectively, it is mandatory to endow them with precise landing …

Uav positioning mechanisms in landing stations: Classification and engineering design review

M Galimov, R Fedorenko, A Klimchik - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landing platforms' automation is aimed at servicing vertical take-off and landing UAVs
between flights and maintaining their airworthiness. Over the last few years, different …

Embedded ArUco: a novel approach for high precision UAV landing

A Khazetdinov, A Zakiev, T Tsoy… - … on Control and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach for precise UAV landing using visual sensory data. A
new type of fiducial marker called embedded ArUco (e-ArUco) was developed specially for a …

An auto-landing strategy based on pan-tilt based visual servoing for unmanned aerial vehicle in GNSS-denied environments

C Chen, S Chen, G Hu, B Chen, P Chen… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) rapid autonomous landing strategy
in GNSS-denied environments using pan-tilt based visual servoing (PTBVS) system. First …

Design and implementation of a UAV-based airborne computing platform for computer vision and machine learning applications

A Douklias, L Karagiannidis, F Misichroni, A Amditis - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visual sensing of the environment is crucial for flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and
is a centerpiece of many related applications. The ability to run computer vision and …

A real-time and multi-sensor-based landing area recognition system for uavs

F Liu, J Shan, B Xiong, Z Fang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a real-time and multi-sensor-based landing area recognition system for
UAVs, which aims to enable UAVs to land safely on open and flat terrain and is suitable for …

Routing in solar-powered UAV delivery system

Z Tian, ZJ Haas, S Shinde - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
As interest grows in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, UAVs have been proposed to
take on increasingly more tasks that were previously assigned to humans. One such task is …