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The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

This paper proposes a vision-in-the-loop simulation environment for deep monocular pose estimation of a UAV operating in an ocean environment. Recently, a deep neural network with a transformer architecture has been successfully trained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Maneesha Wickramasuriya , Beomyeol Yu , Taeyoung Lee , Murray Snyder

Selecting safe landing sites in non-cooperative environments is a key step towards the full autonomy of UAVs. However, the existing methods have the common problems of poor generalization ability and robustness. Their performance in unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lyujie Chen , Xiaming Yuan , Yao Xiao , Yiding Zhang , Jihong Zhu

Considering the accelerated development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications in both industrial and research scenarios, there is an increasing need for localizing these aerial systems in non-urban environments, using GNSS-Free,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Marius-Mihail Gurgu , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on satellite systems for stable positioning. However, due to limited satellite coverage or communication disruptions, UAVs may lose signals from satellite-based positioning systems. In such situations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ming Dai , Enhui Zheng , Zhenhua Feng , Jiedong Zhuang , Wankou Yang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

In the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) landing, conventional approaches fall short in delivering not only the required precision but also the resilience against environmental disturbances. Yet, learning-based algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Francisco Neves , Luís Branco , Maria Pereira , Rafael Claro , Andry Pinto

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

Localization of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relies heavily on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which are susceptible to interference. Especially in security applications, robust localization algorithms independent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jouko Kinnari , Riccardo Renzulli , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Robust and accurate localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an essential capability to achieve autonomous, long-range flights. Current methods either rely heavily on GNSS, face limitations in visual-based localization due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yao He , Ivan Cisneros , Nikhil Keetha , Jay Patrikar , Zelin Ye , Ian Higgins , Yaoyu Hu , Parv Kapoor , Sebastian Scherer

This paper addresses the problem of developing an algorithm for autonomous ship landing of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), using only a monocular camera in the UAV for tracking and localization.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vishnu Saj , Bochan Lee , Dileep Kalathil , Moble Benedict

Localization can be achieved by different sensors and techniques such as a global positioning system (GPS), wifi, ultrasonic sensors, and cameras. In this paper, we focus on the laser-based localization method for unmanned aerial vehicle…

Accurate visual localization from aerial views is a fundamental problem with applications in mapping, large-area inspection, and search-and-rescue operations. In many scenarios, these systems require high-precision localization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Oussema Dhaouadi , Riccardo Marin , Johannes Meier , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

We present a robust deep learning based 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) localization system for endoscopic capsule robots. Our system mainly focuses on localization of endoscopic capsule robots inside the GI tract using only visual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

Integration of reinforcement learning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous flight has been an active research area in recent years. An important part focuses on obstacle detection and avoidance for UAVs navigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeremy Roghair , Kyungtae Ko , Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli , Ali Jannesari

Image retrieval has been employed as a robust complementary technique to address the challenge of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) self-positioning. However, most existing methods primarily focus on localizing objects captured by UAVs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuanze Xu , Ming Dai , Wenxiao Cai , Wankou Yang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural language, audio, video, and many others. In the remote sensing field,…

As robotics technology advances, dense point cloud maps are increasingly in demand. However, dense reconstruction using a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) suffers from limitations in flight speed and battery power, resulting in slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yifei Dong , Shuhui Bu , Kun Li , Lin Chen , Zhenyu Xia , Yu Wang , Pengcheng Han , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert