The advance of technology has enabled the development of unmanned systems/vehicles
used in the air, on the ground or on/in the water. The application range for these systems is …

This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

This survey paper presents a holistic perspective on the state-of-the-art in the design of
guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous multi-rotor small unmanned …

Continuously and reliably estimating the relative configuration of robotic swarms in real-time
constitutes a core functionality when pursuing the autonomy of such a swarm. Relying on …

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) localization and attitude estimation system to
track a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using a single camera without prior knowledge of …

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) has been widely used and researched to control and aid the
automation of navigation of robots especially in the absence of absolute position …

A real-time 3-D spatial localization system to track an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using
a single off-board conventional camera and an onboard circle-shaped colored light-emitting …

This paper reports a novel optical localization method, including both the hardware design
and algorithm design, to track mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The method relies …

Pose estimation with state or measurement constraints has been frequent in autonomous
vehicle navigation. Aiming at incorporating constraints inherently, this article proposes a …

This paper proposes an Emergency Battery Service (EBS) for drones in which an EBS drone
flies to a drone in the field with a depleted battery and transfers a fresh battery to the …