Survey of UAV motion planning

L Quan, L Han, B Zhou, S Shen… - IET Cyber‐systems and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motion planning is a vital module for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in
scenarios of autonomous navigation and operation. This survey delivers some recent state …

A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection

L Lu, G Fasano, A Carrio, M Lei, H Bavle… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been confirmed as a powerful tool
for countless applications in nearly every industry, in which collision avoidance plays a vital …

Robust and efficient quadrotor trajectory generation for fast autonomous flight

B Zhou, F Gao, L Wang, C Liu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast
flight in three-dimensional complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching …

Raptor: Robust and perception-aware trajectory replanning for quadrotor fast flight

B Zhou, J Pan, F Gao, S Shen - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in trajectory replanning have enabled quadrotor to navigate autonomously
in unknown environments. However, high-speed navigation still remains a significant …

Planning dynamically feasible trajectories for quadrotors using safe flight corridors in 3-d complex environments

S Liu, M Watterson, K Mohta, K Sun… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is extensive literature on using convex optimization to derive piece-wise polynomial
trajectories for controlling differential flat systems with applications to three-dimensional …

Online safe trajectory generation for quadrotors using fast marching method and bernstein basis polynomial

F Gao, W Wu, Y Lin, S Shen - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a framework for online quadrotor motion planning for autonomous
navigation in unknown environments. Based on the onboard state estimation and …

Autonomous aerial navigation using monocular visual‐inertial fusion

Y Lin, F Gao, T Qin, W Gao, T Liu, W Wu… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have cost and mobility benefits, making them
ideal robotic platforms for applications including aerial photography, surveillance, and …

Teach-repeat-replan: A complete and robust system for aggressive flight in complex environments

F Gao, L Wang, B Zhou, X Zhou, J Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a complete and robust system for the aggressive flight of
autonomous quadrotors. The proposed system is built upon on the classical teach-and …

Flying on point clouds: Online trajectory generation and autonomous navigation for quadrotors in cluttered environments

F Gao, W Wu, W Gao, S Shen - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), especially quadrotors, have been widely used in field
applications, such as disaster response, field surveillance, and search‐and‐rescue. For …

ikd-tree: An incremental kd tree for robotic applications

Y Cai, W Xu, F Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10808, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes an efficient data structure, ikd-Tree, for dynamic space partition. The ikd-
Tree incrementally updates a kd tree with new coming points only, leading to much lower …