UAV framework for autonomous onboard navigation and people/object detection in cluttered indoor environments

J Sandino, F Vanegas, F Maire, P Caccetta… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Response efforts in emergency applications such as border protection, humanitarian relief
and disaster monitoring have improved with the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) …

Drone-based autonomous motion planning system for outdoor environments under object detection uncertainty

J Sandino, F Maire, P Caccetta, C Sanderson… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increased their
use in remote sensing applications, such as precision agriculture, biosecurity, disaster …

Safe path planning for UAV urban operation under GNSS signal occlusion risk

JA Delamer, Y Watanabe, CPC Chanel - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a concept of safe path planning for UAV's autonomous operation in an
urban environment where GNSS-positioning may become unreliable or even unavailable. If …

Autonomous uav navigation for active perception of targets in uncertain and cluttered environments

J Sandino, F Vanegas, F Gonzalez… - 2020 IEEE Aerospace …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAVs) has grown exponentially owing to an
increasing number of autonomous capabilities. Automated functions include the return to …

Autonomous mapping of desiccation cracks via a probabilistic-based motion planner onboard uavs

J Sandino, J Galvez–Serna, N Mandel… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Studies of past life forms on other planets are possible through the identification and
localisation of desiccation cracks in ancient water bodies such as lakes, rivers and seas …

Multimodal embodied plan prediction augmented with synthetic embodied dialogue

A Padmakumar, M Inan, S Gella… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Embodied task completion is a challenge where an agent in a simulated environment must
predict environment actions to complete tasks based on natural language instructions and …

Efficient Symbolic Planning with Views

S Hasler, D Tanneberg, M Gienger - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03307, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robotic planning systems model spatial relations in detail as these are needed for
manipulation tasks. In contrast to this, other physical attributes of objects and the effect of …

Reducing object detection uncertainty from rgb and thermal data for UAV outdoor surveillance

J Sandino, PA Caccetta, C Sanderson… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have resulted in their quick adoption
for wide a range of civilian applications, including precision agriculture, biosecurity, disaster …

Towards adjoint sensing and acting schemes and interleaving task planning for robust robot plan

S Yang, X Mao, S Wang, H Xiao… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots operating in open environments expect to have robust plans to achieve tasks
successfully under environment uncertainties. However, both partial observability and …

Autonomous recovery from spacecraft plan failures by regulatory repair while retaining operability

R Xu, C Chen, S Lu, Z Li - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pre-designed spacecraft plans suffer from failure due to the uncertain space environment. In
this case, instead of spending a long time waiting for ground control to upload a feasible …