Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

ikd-tree: An incremental kd tree for robotic applications

Y Cai, W Xu, F Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10808, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes an efficient data structure, ikd-Tree, for dynamic space partition. The ikd-
Tree incrementally updates a kd tree with new coming points only, leading to much lower …

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 …

Back to Newton's Laws: Learning Vision-based Agile Flight via Differentiable Physics

Y Zhang, Y Hu, Y Song, D Zou, W Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10648, 2024 - arxiv.org
Swarm navigation in cluttered environments is a grand challenge in robotics. This work
combines deep learning with first-principle physics through differentiable simulation to …

Avoiding dynamic small obstacles with onboard sensing and computation on aerial robots

F Kong, W Xu, Y Cai, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In practical applications, autonomous quadrotors are still facing significant challenges, such
as the detection and avoidance of very small and even dynamic obstacles (eg, tree …

Bubble planner: Planning high-speed smooth quadrotor trajectories using receding corridors

Y Ren, F Zhu, W Liu, Z Wang, Y Lin… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors are agile platforms. With human experts, they can perform extremely high-speed
flights in cluttered environments. However, fully autonomous flight at high speed remains a …

Research on obstacle avoidance path planning of UAV in complex environments based on improved Bézier curve

Z Zhang, X Liu, B Feng - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Obstacle avoidance path planning is considered an essential requirement for unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) to reach its designated mission area and perform its tasks. This study …

Robo-Centric ESDF: A fast and accurate whole-body collision evaluation tool for any-shape robotic planning

S Geng, Q Wang, L Xie, C Xu, Y Cao… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For letting mobile robots travel flexibly through complicated environments, increasing
attention has been paid to the whole-body collision evaluation. Most existing works either …

密集环境中无人机协同机动飞行运动规划方法综述.

牛轶峰, 刘天晴, 李杰, 贾圣德 - Journal of National …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
从单无人机机动飞行向多机协同扩展的通用规划框架出发, 介绍了其中各模块相关研究的基本
原理, 代表性方法和前沿研究, 主要包括用于环境障碍感知的实时导航地图构建 …

A Low-Altitude Obstacle Avoidance Method for UAVs Based on Polyhedral Flight Corridor

Z Ma, Z Wang, A Ma, Y Liu, Y Niu - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
UAVs flying in complex low-altitude environments often require real-time sensing to avoid
environmental obstacles. In previous approaches, UAVs have usually carried out motion …