Recent years have seen an unprecedented spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or
“drones”), which are highly useful for both civilian and military applications. Flight safety is a …

The age of automation is upon us. Few decades earlier, nearly all the flying vehicles were
human-controlled. Nowadays, almost every air vehicle is partially automated or getting …

We present a system for the detection of small and potentially obscured obstacles in
vegetated terrain. The key novelty of this system is the coupling of a volumetric occupancy …

In this paper, we propose a resource-efficient system for real-time 3D terrain reconstruction
and landing-spot detection for micro aerial vehicles. The system runs on an on-board …

Amphibious ground-aerial vehicles fuse flying and driving modes to enable more flexible air-
land mobility and have received growing attention recently. By analyzing the existing …

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft system (UAS)
based on visual sensors. During the whole autonomous assignment, the landing procedure …

Autonomous navigation and landing of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are critical
functions towards full intelligence in unknown environments. However, current methods …

In this paper we present an on-board Computer Vision System for the pose estimation of an
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with respect to a human-made landing target. The …

Autonomous landing is a fundamental aspect of drone operations which is being focused
upon by the industry, with ever-increasing demands on safety. As the drones are likely to …

In recent years, the important advances that have been made in unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) are being widely applied for civil purposes. However, several difficulties continue to …