Fiducial markers for pose estimation: Overview, applications and experimental comparison of the artag, apriltag, aruco and stag markers

M Kalaitzakis, B Cain, S Carroll, A Ambrosi… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
Robust localization is critical for the navigation and control of mobile robots. Global
Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), and Simultaneous …

A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques

N Gyagenda, JV Hatilima, H Roth, V Zhmud - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

An adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic for the vehicle routing problem with drones

D Sacramento, D Pisinger, S Ropke - Transportation Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, have attained
considerable interest in recent years due to the potential of revolutionizing transport and …

A deep reinforcement learning strategy for UAV autonomous landing on a moving platform

A Rodriguez-Ramos, C Sampedro, H Bavle… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2019 - Springer
The use of multi-rotor UAVs in industrial and civil applications has been extensively
encouraged by the rapid innovation in all the technologies involved. In particular, deep …

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 …

Position and attitude control of multi-rotor aerial vehicles: A survey

TP Nascimento, M Saska - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
Motion control theory applied to multi-rotor aerial vehicles (MAVs) has gained attention with
the recent increase in the processing power of computers, which are now able to perform the …

Autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving platform using model predictive control

Y Feng, C Zhang, S Baek, S Rawashdeh… - Drones, 2018 - mdpi.com
Developing methods for autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a
mobile platform has been an active area of research over the past decade, as it offers an …

Experimental comparison of fiducial markers for pose estimation

M Kalaitzakis, S Carroll, A Ambrosi… - 2020 International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate localization is crucial for the autonomous navigation and control of Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS). In most applications, localization is provided from a Global …

Autonomous quadcopter precision landing onto a heaving platform: New method and experiment

N Xuan-Mung, SK Hong, NP Nguyen, TL Le - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, with the increasing popularity of quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles in
several real-world applications, achieving a fully autonomous quadcopter flight has become …

Improved altitude control algorithm for quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles

N Xuan-Mung, SK Hong - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles continue to play important roles in several
applications and the improvement of their control performance has been explored in a great …