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 …

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

A survey of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles

S Gupte, PIT Mohandas… - 2012 Proceedings of IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a topic of interest in
many research organizations. UAVs are finding applications in various areas ranging from …

Fusing ultra-wideband range measurements with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes for quadrocopter state estimation

MW Mueller, M Hamer… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A state estimator for a quadrocopter is presented, using measurements from an
accelerometer, angular rate gyroscope, and a set of ultra-wideband ranging radios. The …

Autonomous landing of an UAV with a ground-based actuated infrared stereo vision system

W Kong, D Zhang, X Wang, Z Xian… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we focus on the problem of landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in
unknown and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments based on an …

Vision-based autonomous landing system for unmanned aerial vehicle: A survey

W Kong, D Zhou, D Zhang… - … international conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft system (UAS)
based on visual sensors. During the whole autonomous assignment, the landing procedure …

Remote marker-based tracking for UAV landing using visible-light camera sensor

PH Nguyen, KW Kim, YW Lee, KR Park - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are commonly known as drones, have proved to
be useful not only on the battlefields where manned flight is considered too risky or difficult …

LIRO: Tightly coupled lidar-inertia-ranging odometry

TM Nguyen, M Cao, S Yuan, Y Lyu… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, thanks to the continuously reduced cost and weight of 3D lidar, the
applications of this type of sensor in the community have become increasingly popular …

Uav tracking with lidar as a camera sensor in gnss-denied environments

H Sier, X Yu, I Catalano, JP Queralta… - … on Localization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor has become one of the primary sensors in
robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years …

A ground-based near infrared camera array system for UAV auto-landing in GPS-denied environment

T Yang, G Li, J Li, Y Zhang, X Zhang, Z Zhang, Z Li - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a novel infrared camera array guidance system with capability to track
and provide real time position and speed of a fixed-wing Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) …