The increasing world population makes it necessary to fight challenges such as climate
change and to realize production efficiently and quickly. However, the minimum cost …

Unmanned aerial vehicles offer a safe and fast approach to the production of three-
dimensional spatial data on the surrounding space. In this article, we present a low-cost …

Featured Application Direct visual servoing of UAVs. Abstract Most current unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) primarily use a global positioning system (GPS) and an inertial …

The use of drones to explore indoor spaces has gained attention and popularity for disaster
management and indoor navigation applications. In this paper we present the operations …

This work presents a concept of intelligent vision-less micro-drones, which are motivated by
flying animals such as insects, birds, and bats. The presented micro-drone (named BAT …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in exploring unpredictable terrains,
such as accident sites and search zones. These robots require autonomous navigation and …

SfM-MVS (Structure from Motion-Multi View Stereo) photogrammetry is a cost-effective and
versatile technique used, among other applications, for the three-dimensional (3D) …

The thesis addresses the automation of construction progress monitoring. By linking 4D
Building Information Modeling and photogrammetric point-cloud based methods, individual …

In this work, we propose the use of Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces (MHCI) through
body poses to command a drone in an easy and intuitive way. First, the human-user pose is …

The research work in this paper was carried out to reach advanced positioning capabilities
of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for indoor applications. The paper includes the design …