Survey of advances in guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned rotorcraft systems

F Kendoul - Journal of Field Robotics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

Computer vision in autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles—a systematic mapping study

LM Belmonte, R Morales, A Fernández-Caballero - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Personal assistant robots provide novel technological solutions in order to monitor people's
activities, helping them in their daily lives. In this sense, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

River mapping from a flying robot: state estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping

S Scherer, J Rehder, S Achar, H Cover, A Chambers… - Autonomous …, 2012 - Springer
Accurately mapping the course and vegetation along a river is challenging, since
overhanging trees block GPS at ground level and occlude the shore line when viewed from …

Multilayered mapping and navigation for autonomous micro aerial vehicles

D Droeschel, M Nieuwenhuisen, M Beul… - Journal of Field …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Micro aerial vehicles, such as multirotors, are particularly well suited for the autonomous
monitoring, inspection, and surveillance of buildings, eg, for maintenance or disaster …

Beyond visual range obstacle avoidance and infrastructure inspection by an autonomous helicopter

T Merz, F Kendoul - 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of accomplishing real-world inspection tasks beyond
visual range with an autonomous helicopter using simple but effective methods. We propose …

An autonomous control framework of unmanned helicopter operations for low-altitude flight in mountainous terrains

Z Jin, L Nie, D Li, Z Tu, J Xiang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Low-altitude flight in mountainous terrains is a difficult flight task applied in both military and
civilian fields. The helicopter has to maintain low altitude to realize search and rescue …

Image Based River Navigation System of Catamaran USV with Image Semantic Segmentation

P Yang, C Song, L Chen, W Cui - 2022 WRC Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
USV's river navigation system is very complex, including USV's environmental perception,
USV's positioning, obstacle avoidance, and path planning. Different sensors are required in …

Development of flight path planning for multirotor aerial vehicles

YJ Tsai, CS Lee, CL Lin, CH Huang - Aerospace, 2015 - mdpi.com
This study addresses the flight-path planning problem for multirotor aerial vehicles (AVs).
We consider the specific features and requirements of real-time flight-path planning and …

Dependable low‐altitude obstacle avoidance for robotic helicopters operating in rural areas

T Merz, F Kendoul - Journal of Field Robotics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a system enabling robotic helicopters to fly safely without user
interaction at low altitude over unknown terrain with static obstacles. The system includes a …

On the safe navigation problem for unmanned aircraft: Visual odometry and alignment optimizations for UAV positioning

F Andert, N Ammann, J Püschel… - … on unmanned aircraft …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With increasing automation of unmanned aircraft and the endeavor to fly between buildings
in cities and in other occluded areas, safe navigation is essentially required but still a …