Perching on the moving platforms is a promising solution to enhance the endurance and
operational range of quadrotors, which could benefit the efficiency of a variety of air ground …

Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many
services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure …

This paper proposes Elastic Tracker, a flexible trajectory planning framework that can deal
with challenging tracking tasks with guaranteed safety and visibility. Firstly, an object …

We present two real-time trajectory optimizers based on the Cross-Entropy Method for
visibility-aware navigation. The two approaches differ in handling inequality constraints …

Target tracking with a mobile robot has numerous significant applications in both civilian and
military. Practical challenges such as limited field-of-view, obstacle occlusion, and system …

This paper presents a perception-aware path planner for active SLAM in dynamic
environments using micro-aerial vehicles (MAV). The “Next-Best-View” planner (NBVP …

Gaze isan intuitive and direct way to represent the intentions of an individual. However,
when it comes to assistive aerial teleoperation which aims to perform operators' intention …

In this article, we propose a safe visibility-guided perception-aware trajectory optimization
method for aerial tracking, which can handle occlusion and collision in complex …

The advance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has enabled customers and directors to
film from the air. However, operating the drone to produce desired videos upon a moving …

Aerial tracking with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has wide potential in various
applications. However, the existing works for swarm tracking typically lack the capability of …