Towards multi-day field deployment autonomy: A long-term self-sustainable micro aerial vehicle robot

SJ Carlson, P Arora, T Karakurt, B Moore… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This works deals with the problem of long-term autonomy in the context of multi-day field
deployments of Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) systems. To truly depart from the necessity for …

Deep Learning–based Reassembling of an Aerial & Legged Marsupial Robotic System–of–Systems

P Arora, T Karakurt, E Avlonitis… - 2023 International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we address the System-of-Systems reassembling operation of a marsupial team
comprising a hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a Legged Locomotion robot, relying …

The Gannet Solar–VTOL: An Amphibious Migratory UAV for Long–Term Autonomous Missions

SJ Carlson, B Moore, T Karakurt, P Arora… - 2023 International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide a versatile
platform well-suited to applications requiring the efficiency of fixed-wing flight with the …

UAV-based Foliage Plant Species Classification for Semantic Characterization of Pre-Fire Landscapes

P Arora, PA Vila, A Borghese… - 2024 International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we deal with the problem of establishing a system architecture to facilitate the
real-time autonomous volumetric mapping alongside the semantic characterization of …

Hybrid Locomotive Behaviors for an Amphibious Fixed-Wing/VTOL Tiltrotor UAV

SJ Carlson, C Papachristos - 2024 International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The theory and implementation of a set of alternate auxiliary locomotion modes are
presented for an amphibious fixed-wing VTOL UAV. In real-world conditions and …

Combined Docking-and-Recharging for a Flexible Aerial/Legged Marsupial Autonomous System

B Moore, SJ Carlson, P Arora… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we address the flexible physical docking-and-release as well as recharging
needs for a marsupial system comprising an autonomous tiltrotor hybrid Micro Aerial Vehicle …