Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest in the last decade.
More specifically these vehicles have the capacity to impact package delivery logistics in a …

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 …

This article presents a visual navigation and landing control paradigm for an unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) to land on a moving autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). Therein, an …

Many aerial robotic applications require the ability to land on moving platforms, such as
delivery trucks and marine research boats. We present a method to autonomously land an …

In this paper, a novel approach for autonomously catching fast flying objects is presented, as
inspired by the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2020. In …

Abstract The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic “avatar”
system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment …

Every day, burning buildings threaten the lives of occupants and first responders trying to
save them. Quick action is of essence, but some areas might not be accessible or too …

Landing on a moving platform is an essential requirement to achieve high-performance
autonomous flight with various vehicles, including quadrotors. We propose an efficient and …

Recently, there have been many advances in the algorithms required for autonomous
navigation in unknown environments, such as mapping, collision avoidance, trajectory …