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Recent advancements in UAV technology have spurred interest in developing multi-UAV aerial surveying systems for use in confined environments where GNSS signals are blocked or jammed. This paper focuses airborne magnetic surveying…
The problem of cooperative localization for a small group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a GNSS denied environment is addressed in this paper. The presented approach contains two sequential steps: first, an algorithm called…
Testing Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems is challenging, as multiple devices need to coordinate over lossy links and the systems' behavior is influenced by timing, synchronization, and environmental factors. Traditional testing is often…
Recently, commercial ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers have enabled not only measuring device-to-device distance but also tracking the position of a pedestrian who does not carry a UWB device. UWB-based device-free localization that does…
The challenge to synchronize augmented reality (AR) across sessions/devices has been solved by relying solely on vision-feature mapping, which is suboptimal in scaling workable space and flaws under visual changes in surroundings. This…
Robotic mapping is attractive in many scientific applications that involve environmental surveys. This paper presents a system for localization and mapping of sparsely distributed surface features such as precariously balanced rocks (PBRs),…
Advanced real-time location systems (RTLS) allow for collecting spatio-temporal data from human movement behaviours. Tracking individuals in small areas such as schoolyards or nursing homes might impose difficulties for RTLS in terms of…
Accurate localization is essential for a wide range of applications, including asset tracking, smart agriculture, and animal monitoring. While traditional localization methods, such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Wi-Fi, and…
The design of localization systems for small-scale flapping-wing aerial robots faces relevant challenges caused by the limited payload and onboard computational resources. This paper presents an ultra-wideband localization system…
Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…
With the upcoming trends in autonomous driving and urban air mobility, the number of self-navigating vehicles will increase, since they are foreseen for deliveries as well as autonomous taxis among other applications. To this end, a…
In the rapidly evolving digital technology landscape, community-oriented wearable computing systems are emerging as a key tool for enhancing connectivity and interaction within communal spaces. This paper contributes to this burgeoning…
Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue operations, to name a few. To this end, unmanned aerial vehicles…
Efficient exploration strategies are vital in tasks such as search-and-rescue missions and disaster surveying. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become particularly popular in such applications, promising to cover large areas at high…
This paper presents Range-SLAM, a real-time, lightweight SLAM system designed to address the challenges of localization and mapping in environments with smoke and other harsh conditions using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signals. While optical…
Relative localization (RL) is essential for the successful operation of micro air vehicle (MAV) swarms. Achieving accurate 3-D RL in infrastructure-free and GPS-denied environments with only distance information is a challenging problem…
Accurate positioning of underwater robots in confined environments is crucial for inspection and mapping tasks and is also a prerequisite for autonomous operations. Presently, there are no positioning systems available that are suited for…
Ground robots always get collision in that only if they get close to the obstacles, can they sense the danger and take actions, which is usually too late to avoid the crash, causing severe damage to the robots. To address this issue, we…
Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…
Coordination of multi-robot systems require some form of localization between agents, but most methods today rely on some external infrastructure. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) sensing has gained popularity in relative localization applications,…