Faster: Fast and safe trajectory planner for navigation in unknown environments

J Tordesillas, BT Lopez, M Everett… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning high-speed trajectories for UAVs in unknown environments requires algorithmic
techniques that enable fast reaction times to guarantee safety as more information about the …

Real-time trajectory planning for autonomous driving with gaussian process and incremental refinement

J Cheng, Y Chen, Q Zhang, L Gan… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time kinodynamic trajectory planning in dy-namic environments is critical yet
challenging for autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose an efficient trajectory plan …

Proactive guidance for accurate UAV landing on a dynamic platform: A visual–inertial approach

CW Chang, LY Lo, HC Cheung, Y Feng, AS Yang… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work aimed to develop an autonomous system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to
land on moving platforms such as an automobile or a marine vessel, providing a promising …

Bubble planner: Planning high-speed smooth quadrotor trajectories using receding corridors

Y Ren, F Zhu, W Liu, Z Wang, Y Lin… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors are agile platforms. With human experts, they can perform extremely high-speed
flights in cluttered environments. However, fully autonomous flight at high speed remains a …

Tgk-planner: An efficient topology guided kinodynamic planner for autonomous quadrotors

H Ye, X Zhou, Z Wang, C Xu, J Chu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a lightweight yet effective Topology Guided Kinodynamic planner
(TGK-Planner) for quadrotor aggressive flights with limited onboard computing resources …

Fast UAV trajectory optimization using bilevel optimization with analytical gradients

W Sun, G Tang, K Hauser - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the article, we present an efficient optimization framework that solves trajectory
optimization problems by decoupling state variables from timing variables, thereby …

Generating large-scale trajectories efficiently using double descriptions of polynomials

Z Wang, H Ye, C Xu, F Gao - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For quadrotor trajectory planning, describing a polynomial trajectory through coefficients and
end-derivatives both enjoy their own convenience in energy minimization. We name them …

Robust active visual perching with quadrotors on inclined surfaces

J Mao, S Nogar, CM Kroninger… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous micro aerial vehicles are deployed for a variety of tasks including surveillance
and monitoring. Perching and staring allow the vehicle to monitor targets without flying …

Mapless-planner: A robust and fast planning framework for aggressive autonomous flight without map fusion

J Ji, Z Wang, Y Wang, C Xu… - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining a map online is resource-consuming while a robust navigation system usually
needs environment abstraction via a well-fused map. In this paper, we propose a mapless …

Adaptive bézier degree reduction and splitting for computationally efficient motion planning

Ö Arslan, A Tiemessen - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a parametric polynomial curve family, Bézier curves are widely used in safe and smooth
motion design of intelligent robotic systems from flying drones to autonomous vehicles to …