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Reconstructing Evolving Tree Structures in Time Lapse Sequences by Enforcing Time-Consistency

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Raphael Sznitman, Agata Justyna Mosinska, Jan Kybic, Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki, Miguel Amável Dos Santos Pinheiro, Daniel Lebrecht

We propose a novel approach to reconstructing curvilinear tree structures evolving over time, such as road networks in 2D aerial images or neural structures in 3D microscopy stacks acquired in vivo. To enforce temporal consistency, we simultaneously proces ...

2017

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, is rapidly growing, both in terms of size and of number of applications. Civil applications range from mapping, inspection, search and rescue, taking aerial footage, to art show, entertain ...

EPFL2017

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Flavio Noca, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Matteo Di Luca

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

Collision Avoidance with Limited Field of View Sensing: A Velocity Obstacle Approach

Denis Gillet, Alcherio Martinoli, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

Collision avoidance, in particular between robots, is an important component for autonomous robots. It is a necessary component in numerous applications such as human-robot interaction, automotive or unmanned aerial vehicles. While many collision avoidance ...

2017

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricult ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

Flight Dynamics-based Recovery of a UAV Trajectory using Ground Cameras

Pascal Fua, Artem Rozantsev, Sudipta Sinha

We propose a new method to estimate the 6-dof trajectory of a flying object such as a quadrotor UAV within a 3D airspace monitored using multiple fixed ground cameras. It is based on a new structure from motion formulation for the 3D reconstruction of a si ...

Ieee2017

Multi Level Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Robust Design Optimization in Aerodynamics

Michele Pisaroni

The vast majority of problems that arise in aircraft production and operation require decisions to be made in the presence of uncertainty. An effective and accurate quantification and control of the level of uncertainty introduced in the design phase and d ...

EPFL2017

Vision-based detection of aircrafts and UAVs

Artem Rozantsev

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are becoming increasingly popular for a broad variety of tasks ranging from aerial imagery to objects delivery. With the expansion of the areas, where drones can be efficiently used, the collision risk with other flying objects inc ...

EPFL2017

Adaptable Imaging Package for Remote Vehicles

David Andrew Barry, Jean-Luc Liardon

An easy-to-customize, low-cost solution for remote imagery is described. The system, denoted ImPROV (Imaging Package for Remote Vehicles), supports multiple cameras, live streaming, long-range encrypted communication using mobile networks, positioning and ...

2017

An Overview of a New Sensor Calibration Platform

Jan Skaloud, Stéphane Guerrier, Philipp Clausen

Inertial sensors have been employed in different types of applications in miniature embedded devices such as phones, watches, and small unmanned aerial vehicles. The stochastic structure of the error signal coming from these sensors is complex and needs to ...

2017

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