Autonomous UAV flight control for GPS-based navigation

J Kwak, Y Sung - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight control method where a
graphbased path is generated after the collected UAV flight data by a pilot are analyzed …

There's no place like home: visual teach and repeat for emergency return of multirotor UAVs during GPS failure

M Warren, M Greeff, B Patel, J Collier… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Redundant navigation systems are critical for safe operation of UAVs in high-risk
environments. Since most commercial UAVs almost wholly rely on GPS, jamming …

Appearance-based visual-teach-and-repeat navigation technique for micro aerial vehicle

T Nguyen, GKI Mann, RG Gosine, A Vardy - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to develop a vision-based navigation technique for micro aerial
vehicles, quadrotor type, to operate in GPS-denied environment. The navigation method has …

Hybrid vision-based navigation for mobile robots in mixed indoor/outdoor environments

P De Cristóforis, M Nitsche, T Krajník, T Pire… - Pattern Recognition …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a vision-based navigation system for mobile robots equipped with a
single, off-the-shelf camera in mixed indoor/outdoor environments. A hybrid approach is …

Precision UAV landing in unstructured environments

K Pluckter, S Scherer - Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium …, 2020 - Springer
Autonomous landing of a drone is a necessary part of autonomous flight. One way to have
high certainty of safety in landing is to return to the same location the drone took-off from …

Towards visual teach and repeat for GPS-denied flight of a fixed-wing UAV

M Warren, M Paton, K MacTavish, AP Schoellig… - Field and Service …, 2018 - Springer
Most consumer and industrial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on combining Global
Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) with barometric and inertial sensors for outdoor …

Teach and Repeat and Wheel Calibration for LiDAR-Equipped Omnidirectional Drive Robots

S Bedín, J Civera, M Nitsche - 2023 European Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a novel teach-and-repeat (T&R) method for omnidirectional-drive
autonomous ground vehicles, based on the tightly-coupled fusion of LiDAR and odometry …

Visual-inertial teach and repeat

M Nitsche, F Pessacg, J Civera - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Teach and Repeat (T&R) refers to the technology that allows a robot to
autonomously follow a previously traversed route, in a natural scene and using only its …

Point me in the right direction: Improving visual localization on UAVs with active gimballed camera pointing

B Patel, M Warren, A Schoellig - 2019 16th Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust autonomous navigation of multirotor UAVs in GPS-denied environments is critical to
enable their safe operation in many applications such as surveillance and reconnaissance …

Autonomous Precision Landing with UAV and Auto charging

AS Nair, PA Jeyanthy, L Ramesh… - … on Recent Trends …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are efficient when it comes to aerial surveillance,
mapping, and reconnaissance. Most mini-UAVs have limited flight time which can severely …