A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques

N Gyagenda, JV Hatilima, H Roth, V Zhmud - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

Survey of UAV motion planning

L Quan, L Han, B Zhou, S Shen… - IET Cyber‐systems and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motion planning is a vital module for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in
scenarios of autonomous navigation and operation. This survey delivers some recent state …

Learning high-speed flight in the wild

A Loquercio, E Kaufmann, R Ranftl, M Müller… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Quadrotors are agile. Unlike most other machines, they can traverse extremely complex
environments at high speeds. To date, only expert human pilots have been able to fully …

Agilicious: Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight

P Foehn, E Kaufmann, A Romero, R Penicka, S Sun… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Autonomous, agile quadrotor flight raises fundamental challenges for robotics research in
terms of perception, planning, learning, and control. A versatile and standardized platform is …

Model predictive contouring control for time-optimal quadrotor flight

A Romero, S Sun, P Foehn… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we tackle the problem of flying time-optimal trajectories through multiple
waypoints with quadrotors. State-of-the-art solutions split the problem into a planning task …

The MRS UAV system: Pushing the frontiers of reproducible research, real-world deployment, and education with autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

T Baca, M Petrlik, M Vrba, V Spurny, R Penicka… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control and estimation system for
supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We …

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

Dynamic obstacle avoidance for quadrotors with event cameras

D Falanga, K Kleber, D Scaramuzza - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
Today's autonomous drones have reaction times of tens of milliseconds, which is not
enough for navigating fast in complex dynamic environments. To safely avoid fast moving …

A survey on odometry for autonomous navigation systems

SAS Mohamed, MH Haghbayan, T Westerlund… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of a navigation system is one of the major challenges in building a fully
autonomous platform. Full autonomy requires a dependable navigation capability not only in …

Are we ready for autonomous drone racing? the UZH-FPV drone racing dataset

J Delmerico, T Cieslewski, H Rebecq… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite impressive results in visual-inertial state estimation in recent years, high speed
trajectories with six degree of freedom motion remain challenging for existing estimation …