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Inertial navigation system

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Are We Ready for Autonomous Drone Racing? The UZH-FPV Drone Racing Datase

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 algorithms. Aggressive trajectories feature large accelerations and rapid r ...

2019

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza

The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...

2019

Multirotor UAV-based platform for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence: validation and signature detection of tip vortices of wind turbine blades.

Fernando Porté Agel, Lionel Wilhelm, Fernando Carbajo Fuertes

The present study describes the development of a technique for the measurement of atmospheric turbulence and temperature at a point in space based on the integration of a fast-response multi-hole pressure probe and a thermocouple with an inertial measureme ...

2019

MEMS Piezoelectric Accelerometer for Vibration Sensing in Harsh Environments

Bradley James Petkus

This master thesis presents a detailed overview of various MEMS accelerometers used as vibrometers in harsh environments. Commercial and scientific literature accelerometers are compared to determine the best accelerometer for said application. This compar ...

2019

Robot Identification and Localization with Pointing Gestures

We propose a novel approach to establish the relative pose of a mobile robot with respect to an operator that wants to interact with it; we focus on scenarios in which the robot is in the same environment as the operator, and is visible to them. The approa ...

2019

Real-world gait speed estimation using wrist sensor: A personalized approach

Kamiar Aminian, Hooman Dejnabadi, Abolfazl Soltani, Martin Savary

Gait speed is an important parameter to characterize people's daily mobility. For real-world speed measurement, inertial sensors or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can be used on wrist, possibly integrated in a wristwatch. However, power consumpt ...

2019

Behavioural compass: animal behaviour recognition using magnetometers

Kamiar Aminian, Pritish Chakravarty, Maiki Maalberg

Animal-borne data loggers today often house several sensors recording simultaneously at high frequency. This offers opportunities to gain fine-scale insights into behaviour from individual-sensor as well as integrated multi-sensor data. In the context of b ...

2019

Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Fazil Emre Uslu

Bacteria can exploit mechanics to display remarkable plasticity in response to locally changing physical and chemical conditions. Compliant structures play a notable role in their taxis behavior, specifically for navigation inside complex and structured en ...

2019

5 GHz Band n79 wideband microacoustic filter using thin lithium niobate membrane

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Victor Plessky, Bruno Garcia

Microacoustic resonators made on suspended continuous membranes of LiNbO3 were recently shown to have very strong coupling and low losses at >= 5 GHz, suitable for high-performance filter design. Employing these simple resonator structures, the authors hav ...

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A Tutorial on Quantitative Trajectory Evaluation for Visual(-Inertial) Odometry

Davide Scaramuzza

In this tutorial, we provide principled methods to quantitatively evaluate the quality of an estimated trajectory from visual(-inertial) odometry (VO/VIO), which is the foundation of benchmarking the accuracy of different algorithms. First, we show how to ...

2019

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