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David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Silvestro Micera, Stefano Mintchev, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Fiorenzo Artoni, Martina Coscia, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod

A method for remotely controlling an operated unmanned object, comprises defining of a set of control movements of an operator; selecting of minimal necessary signals to reliably acquire the operator's control movements; defining of a mapping of the contro ...

2019

An Adaptive Landing Gear for Extending the Operational Range of Helicopters

Tobias Löw, Marco Hutter

Conventional skid or wheel based helicopter landing gears severely limit off-field landing possibilities, which are crucial when operating in scenarios such as mountain rescue. In this context, slopes beyond 8° and small obstacles can already pose a substa ...

IEEE2019

Sensitivity to Time Delays in VDM-Based Navigation

Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré, Mehran Khaghani

A recently proposed navigation methodology for aerial platforms based on the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) has shown promising results in terms of navigation autonomy. Its practical realization requires that control inputs are related to the same absolute ti ...

2019

UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

Wenlong Deng

Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...

2019

Drone Shadow Tracking

Sabine Süsstrunk, Majed El Helou, Ruofan Zhou

Aerial videos taken by a drone not too far above the surface may contain the drone's shadow projected on the scene. This deteriorates the aesthetic quality of videos. With the presence of other shadows, shadow removal cannot be directly applied, and the sh ...

2019

Decentralized Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for 3D Formation of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles with Relative Sensing and Estimation

Alcherio Martinoli, Izzet Kagan Erünsal, Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura

In recent years, extensive research is conducted on the coordination and cooperation strategies of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to perform high-level missions such as scientific exploration, search and rescue, intelligence gathering etc. [1], [2 ...

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

Real-time high-resolution omnidirectional imaging platform for drone detection and tracking

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Selman Ergünay, Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic, Bilal Demir, Gökçen Nurlu

Drones have become steadily affordable, which raises privacy and security concerns as well as interest in drone detection systems. On the other hand, drone detection is a challenging task due to small dimensions of drones, difficulty of long-distance detec ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

FOLDAWAY DroneSense, a controller for haptic information encoding for drone pilots

Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno

Over the last decade, the number of drones has significantly increased. In parallel, researchers have started to investigate new human-drone interaction paradigms for a more natural and immersive piloting experience. The use of haptic feedback to establish ...

2019

A low-cost, autonomous mobile platform for limnological investigations, supported by high-resolution mesoscale airborne imagery

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Anton Ivanov, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Stepan Tulyakov, Ludovic Zulliger, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Jean-Luc Liardon, Philippe Olivier Paccaud, Jérôme Béguin, Beat Marcel Geissmann, Pascal Klaus

Two complementary measurement systems – built upon an autonomous floating craft and a tethered balloon – for lake research and monitoring are presented. The autonomous vehicle was assembled on a catamaran for stability, and is capable of handling a variety ...

2019

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