In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

Many estimation, planning, and optimal control problems in robotics have an optimization
problem at their core. In most of these optimization problems, the objective to be maximized …

Abstract Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is often characterized as being able to recognize
the same place despite significant changes in appearance and viewpoint. VPR is a key …

In recent years, research and development in aerial robotics (ie, unmanned aerial vehicles,
UAVs) has been growing at an unprecedented speed, and there is a need to summarize the …

The growing possibilities offered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in many areas of life, in
particular in automatic data acquisition, spur the search for new methods to improve the …

Undoubtedly, the drone industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world today.
There is unlimited potential for Drone technology with continued growth and investment …

The visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) has been a practical approach for state
estimation in recent years. In this paper, we propose a general GPS-aided omnidirectional …

Autonomous driving is a dynamically growing field of research, where quality and amount of
experimental data is critical. Although several rich datasets are available these days, the …

For some years now, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are commonly used for different
mobile mapping applications, such as in the fields of surveying, mining or archeology. To …

The pose estimation of the aircraft in the taxiing or parking state on the airport surface has
been proved helpful for the level of control and command, operation efficiency, capacity of …