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Ultra Low Power Deep-Learning-powered Autonomous Nano Drones

Luca Benini, Davide Scaramuzza

Flying in dynamic, urban, highly-populated environments represents an open problem in robotics. State-of-the-art (SoA) autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) employ advanced computer vision techniques based on computationally expensive algorithms, such ...

2018

The Voliro Omniorientational Hexacopter: An Agile and Maneuverable Tiltable-Rotor Aerial Vehicle

Roland Siegwart

Extending the maneuverability of multirotors promises to yield a considerable increase in their scope of applications, such as carrying out more challenging inspection tasks and generating complex, uninterrupted movements of an attached camera. In this art ...

2018

Integrated Sensor Orientation on Micro Aerial Vehicles

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 agricul ...

EPFL2017

Applicability Of New Approaches Of Sensor Orientation To Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study highlights the benefits of precise aerial position and attitude control in the context of mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Accurate mapping with MAVs is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline ins ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

Application Of Vehicle Dynamic Modeling In Uavs For Precise Determination Of Exterior Orientation

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

Advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and especially micro aerial vehicle (MAV) technology together with increasing quality and decreasing price of imaging devices have resulted in growing use of MAVs in photogrammetry. The practicality of MAV mapping ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

Autonomous and non-autonomous dynamic model based navigation system for unmanned vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

A navigation system including a vehicle dynamic model (VDM) that serves as the main process model within a navigation filter is described. When used in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the navigation system may work in communication with inertial measurem ...

2016

Detection of mini-UAVs in the presence of strong topographic relief - a multi-sensor perspective

Yusuf Leblebici

Based on the steadily growing use of mini-UAVs for numerous civilian and military applications, mini-UAVs have been recognized as an increasing potential threat. Therefore, counter-UAV solutions addressing the peculiarities of this class of UAVs have recen ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

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Within the frame of the ESA’s General Support Technology Programme, EPFL studied two In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions using CubeSat technologies. These IODs aim at alleviating the technical risk inherent to new technologies required for Active Debris ...

2015

A Micro Aerial Vehicle with Precise Position and Attitude Sensors

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Romain Mabillard

This study shows the potential of navigation technologies in the field of position and orientation determination on a micro aerial vehicle (MAV), which weight does not exceed 5 kg. Although the MAV systems feature high flexibility and capability of flying ...

E Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung2014

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The integration of observations issued from a satellite-based system (GNSS) with an inertial navigation system (INS) is usually performed through a Bayesian filter such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF). The task of designing the navigation EKF is strong ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014