Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in underground structure inspection: A review

R Zhang, G Hao, K Zhang, Z Li - Geological Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many years after construction, a number of existing old tunnels and underground structures
are deteriorating with time as evidenced by cracks, large deformations, water leakage and …

Exploring event camera-based odometry for planetary robots

F Mahlknecht, D Gehrig, J Nash… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their resilience to motion blur and high robustness in low-light and high dynamic
range conditions, event cameras are poised to become enabling sensors for vision-based …

Adaptive estimation of UAV altitude in complex indoor environments using degraded and time-delayed measurements with time-varying uncertainties

V Pritzl, M Vrba, C Tortorici, R Ashour… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel approach for robust Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) altitude estimation relying on
laser measurements that is designed for use in complex indoor environments is proposed in …

Range–Visual–Inertial Odometry with Coarse-to-Fine Image Registration Fusion for UAV Localization

Y Hao, M He, Y Liu, J Liu, Z Meng - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, image registration has
emerged as a prominent approach to utilize visual information for estimating the position of …

Visual-inertial-aided online mav system identification

C Chen, Y Yang, P Geneva, W Lee… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
System modeling and parameter identification of micro aerial vehicles (MAV) are crucial for
robust autonomy, especially under highly dynamic motions. Visual-inertial-aided online …

Event-and Frame-based Visual-Inertial Odometry with Adaptive Filtering based on 8-DOF Warping Uncertainty

MS Lee, JH Jung, YJ Kim… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present an event-and frame-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithm
that fuses frames, events, and inertial measurement in a robust and adaptive manner …

Drone high-rise aerial delivery with vertical grid screening

A Seth, A James, E Kuantama, S Mukhopadhyay… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delivery drones typically perform delivery by suspending the parcel vertically or landing the
drone to drop off the package. However, because of the constrained landing area and the …

Hybrid metric-feature mapping based on camera and Lidar sensor fusion

C Liu, G Zhang, Y Rong, W Shao, J Meng, G Li… - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Mapping the surroundings is a challenging task required for mobile robot. Fusion of
heterogeneous sensors measurement has gradually been the main focus of robot …

An overview of simultaneous localisation and mapping: towards multi-sensor fusion

J Yin, F Yan, Y Liu, G He, Y Zhuang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems have been widely studied over the
past 30 years and extensively applied in various fields such as mobile robotics, augmented …

Visual-pressure fusion for underwater robot localization with online initialization

C Hu, S Zhu, Y Liang, Z Mu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The motion of underwater robot is usually slow, which leads to large scale error easily
introduced in the positioning method based on monocular Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO). To …