Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons

CA Dimmig, G Silano, K McGuire… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and
ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vital …

Occupancy grid mapping without ray-casting for high-resolution LiDAR sensors

Y Cai, F Kong, Y Ren, F Zhu, J Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Occupancy mapping is a fundamental component of robotic systems to reason about the
unknown and known regions of the environment. This article presents an efficient occupancy …

Immesh: An immediate lidar localization and meshing framework

J Lin, C Yuan, Y Cai, H Li, Y Ren, Y Zou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a novel light detection and ranging (LiDAR)(-inertial) odometry
and mapping framework to achieve the goal of simultaneous localization and meshing in …

Integrated Planning and Control for Quadrotor Navigation in Presence of Suddenly Appearing Objects and Disturbances

W Liu, Y Ren, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous flight for quadrotors in environments with suddenly appearing objects and
disturbances still faces significant challenges. In this work, we propose an integrated …

Colag: A collaborative air-ground framework for perception-limited ugvs' navigation

Z Li, R Mao, N Chen, C Xu, F Gao… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception is necessary for autonomous navigation in an unknown area crowded with
obstacles. It's challenging for a robot to navigate safely without any sensors that can sense …

ROG-map: An efficient robocentric occupancy grid map for large-scene and high-resolution LiDAR-based motion planning

Y Ren, Y Cai, F Zhu, S Liang, F Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14819, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in LiDAR technology have opened up new possibilities for robotic
navigation. Given the widespread use of occupancy grid maps (OGMs) in robotic motion …

Falcon: Fast autonomous aerial exploration using coverage path guidance

Y Zhang, X Chen, C Feng, B Zhou, S Shen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces FALCON, a novel Fast Autonomous expLoration framework using
COverage path guidaNce, which aims at setting a new performance benchmark in the field …

UAV based sensing and imaging technologies for power system detection, monitoring and inspection: a review

Y He, Z Liu, Y Guo, Q Zhu, Y Fang, Y Yin… - Nondestructive …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With the advancement and expansion of power system technology, ensuring the safe and
stable operation of transmission lines has become increasingly crucial. Traditional manual …

Real-Time Efficient Environment Compression and Sharing for Multi-Robot Cooperative Systems

L Zheng, K Xu, J Jiang, M Wei, B Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient environment sharing is crucial for multi-robot tasks, such as exploration and
navigation. However, real-time environment sharing faces significant challenges due to …

AirFogSim: A Light-Weight and Modular Simulator for UAV-Integrated Vehicular Fog Computing

Z Wei, C Huang, B Li, Y Zhao, X Cheng, L Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) is significantly enhancing the efficiency, safety, and
computational capabilities of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and the integration of …