Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

Learning high-speed flight in the wild

A Loquercio, E Kaufmann, R Ranftl, M Müller… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Quadrotors are agile. Unlike most other machines, they can traverse extremely complex
environments at high speeds. To date, only expert human pilots have been able to fully …

Vision-only robot navigation in a neural radiance world

M Adamkiewicz, T Chen, A Caccavale… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for the
representation of natural, complex 3D scenes. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) represent …

Agilicious: Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight

P Foehn, E Kaufmann, A Romero, R Penicka, S Sun… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Autonomous, agile quadrotor flight raises fundamental challenges for robotics research in
terms of perception, planning, learning, and control. A versatile and standardized platform is …

Ego-planner: An esdf-free gradient-based local planner for quadrotors

X Zhou, Z Wang, H Ye, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gradient-based planners are widely used for quadrotor local planning, in which a Euclidean
Signed Distance Field (ESDF) is crucial for evaluating gradient magnitude and direction …

Design and experimental validation of deep reinforcement learning-based fast trajectory planning and control for mobile robot in unknown environment

R Chai, H Niu, J Carrasco, F Arvin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article is concerned with the problem of planning optimal maneuver trajectories and
guiding the mobile robot toward target positions in uncertain environments for exploration …

Model predictive contouring control for time-optimal quadrotor flight

A Romero, S Sun, P Foehn… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we tackle the problem of flying time-optimal trajectories through multiple
waypoints with quadrotors. State-of-the-art solutions split the problem into a planning task …

Fuel: Fast uav exploration using incremental frontier structure and hierarchical planning

B Zhou, Y Zhang, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various applications of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). Existing methods, however, were demonstrated to insufficient …

Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

MADER: Trajectory planner in multiagent and dynamic environments

J Tordesillas, JP How - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents MADER, a 3-D decentralized and asynchronous trajectory planner for
UAVs that generates collision-free trajectories in environments with static obstacles …