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Lake Imaging and Monitoring Aerial Drone

David Andrew Barry, Ludovic Zulliger, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Jean-Luc Liardon, Lukas Oliver Hostettler, Karl Johannes Kangur

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included (i) fuselage capable of accommodating an imaging package or other instrumentation, (ii) suitability for over-lake BVLOS author ...

2018

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

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

Nicolas Dousse

With current overuse of the road transportation system and planned increase in traffic, inno- vative solutions that overcome environmental and financial cost of the current system should be assessed. A promising idea is the use of the third dimension for p ...

EPFL2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Semi- or fully-autonomous Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) are currently studied and developed by public and private organizations as a solution for traffic congestion. While optimal collision-free navigation algorithms have been proposed for autonomous rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Recent technological advancements in hardware systems have made higher quality cameras. State of the art panoramic systems use them to produce videos with a resolution of 9000 x 2400 pixels at a rate of 30 frames per second (fps).(1) Many modern applicatio ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Semi-arid savannas are endangered by changes in the fragile equilibrium between rainfalls, fires and grazing pressure exerted by wildlife or cattle. To avoid bush encroachment and the decline of perennial grass, land managers must pay attention to keep the ...

2016

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

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen

Flying robots are increasingly adopted in search and rescue missions because of their capability to quickly collect and stream information from remote and dangerous areas. To further enhance their use, we are investigating the development of a new class of ...

Ieee2016

Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

Mini-drones are increasingly used in video surveillance. Their areal mobility and ability to carry video cameras provide new perspectives in visual surveillance which can impact privacy in ways that have not been considered in a typical surveillance scenar ...

2015