Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles-based internet of things services: Comprehensive survey and future perspectives

NH Motlagh, T Taleb, O Arouk - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have attracted a lot of attention,
since they represent a new potential market. Along with the maturity of the technology and …

Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles

V Kumar, N Michael - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We survey the recent work on micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a fast-growing field
in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific …

Unsupervised monocular depth learning in dynamic scenes

H Li, A Gordon, H Zhao, V Casser… - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a method for jointly training the estimation of depth, ego-motion, and a dense 3D
translation field of objects relative to the scene, with monocular photometric consistency …

[图书][B] Autonomous flying robots: unmanned aerial vehicles and micro aerial vehicles

K Nonami, F Kendoul, S Suzuki, W Wang, D Nakazawa - 2010 - books.google.com
The advance in robotics has boosted the application of autonomous vehicles to perform
tedious and risky tasks or to be cost-effective substitutes for their-man counterparts. Based …

Vision-based autonomous quadrotor landing on a moving platform

D Falanga, A Zanchettin, A Simovic… - … on Safety, Security …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a quadrotor system capable of autonomously landing on a moving platform
using only onboard sensing and computing. We rely on state-of-the-art computer vision …

PIXHAWK: A micro aerial vehicle design for autonomous flight using onboard computer vision

L Meier, P Tanskanen, L Heng, GH Lee… - Autonomous …, 2012 - Springer
We describe a novel quadrotor Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) system that is designed to use
computer vision algorithms within the flight control loop. The main contribution is a MAV …

Monocular‐SLAM–based navigation for autonomous micro helicopters in GPS‐denied environments

S Weiss, D Scaramuzza, R Siegwart - Journal of Field Robotics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) will soon play a major role in tasks such as
search and rescue, environment monitoring, surveillance, and inspection. They allow us to …

Vision based MAV navigation in unknown and unstructured environments

M Blösch, S Weiss, D Scaramuzza… - … on Robotics and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the research on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), the field on flight control and
autonomous mission execution is one of the most active. A crucial point is the localization of …

Vision based autonomous landing of multirotor UAV on moving platform

O Araar, N Aouf, I Vitanov - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2017 - Springer
This paper investigates solutions for the fundamental yet challenging problem of
autonomous landing of multirotor Unammaned Aerial Vehicles UAVs. In addition to landing …

Autonomous aerial robotics for package delivery: A technical review

J Saunders, S Saeedi, W Li - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …