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This paper proposes Elastic Tracker, a flexible trajectory planning framework that can deal with challenging tracking tasks with guaranteed safety and visibility. Firstly, an object detection and intension-free motion prediction method is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jialin Ji , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

In this paper, we present a motion planning strategy for UAVs that generates a time-optimal trajectory to survey a given target area. There are several situations where completing an aerial survey is time sensitive, such as gaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tankasala Srinath , Pehlivanturk Can , Pryor Mitch

Recent advancements in video generation have been greatly driven by video diffusion models, with camera motion control emerging as a crucial challenge in creating view-customized visual content. This paper introduces trajectory attention, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zeqi Xiao , Wenqi Ouyang , Yifan Zhou , Shuai Yang , Lei Yang , Jianlou Si , Xingang Pan

The autonomous formation flight of fixed-wing drones is hard when the coordination requires the actuation over their speeds since they are critically bounded and aircraft are mostly designed to fly at a nominal airspeed. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yang Xu , Jesús Bautista , José Hinojosa , Héctor García de Marina

We consider joint trajectory generation and tracking control for under-actuated robotic systems. A common solution is to use a layered control architecture, where the top layer uses a simplified model of system dynamics for trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Anusha Srikanthan , Fengjun Yang , Igor Spasojevic , Dinesh Thakur , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni

The development of aerial autonomy has enabled aerial robots to fly agilely in complex environments. However, dodging fast-moving objects in flight remains a challenge, limiting the further application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Botao He , Haojia Li , Siyuan Wu , Dong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Qianli Dong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Autonomous drone racing is becoming an excellent platform to challenge quadrotors' autonomy techniques including planning, navigation and control technologies. However, most research on this topic mainly focuses on single drone scenarios.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuyang Shen , Jinming Xu , Jin Zhou , Danzhe Xu , Fangguo Zhao , Jiming Chen , Shuo Li

This work proposes a jointly optimized trajectory generation and camera control approach, enabling an autonomous agent, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in 3D environments, to plan and execute coverage trajectories that…

With the increasing integration of robots into human life, their role in architectural spaces where people spend most of their time has become more prominent. While motion capabilities and accurate localization for automated robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mengke Zhang , Zhihao Tian , Yaoguang Xia , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Camera trajectory generation is a cornerstone in computer graphics, robotics, virtual reality, and cinematography, enabling seamless and adaptive camera movements that enhance visual storytelling and immersive experiences. Despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zahra Dehghanian , Pouya Ardekhani , Amir Vahedi , Hamid Beigy , Hamid R. Rabiee

We present a novel end-to-end diffusion-based trajectory generation method, DTG, for mapless global navigation in challenging outdoor scenarios with occlusions and unstructured off-road features like grass, buildings, bushes, etc. Given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jing Liang , Amirreza Payandeh , Daeun Song , Xuesu Xiao , Dinesh Manocha

In autonomous and mobile robotics, a principal challenge is resilient real-time environmental perception, particularly in situations characterized by unknown and dynamic elements, as exemplified in the context of autonomous drone racing.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zhongzheng Qiao , Xuan Huy Pham , Savitha Ramasamy , Xudong Jiang , Erdal Kayacan , Andriy Sarabakha

In this study a new approach is proposed for the generation of aircraft trajectories. The relative guidance of an aircraft, which is aimed to join in minimum time the track of a leader aircraft, is particularly considered. In a first place,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-21 Mohammad Shahzad , Félix Mora-Camino , Jules Ghislain Slama , Karim Achaibou

This paper explores the process of designing an automatic multi-sensor drone detection system. Besides the common video and audio sensors, the system also includes a thermal infrared camera, which is shown to be a feasible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fredrik Svanstrom , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Trajectory-based motion control has emerged as an intuitive and efficient approach for controllable video generation. However, the existing trajectory-based approaches are usually limited to only generating the motion trajectory of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuhao Li , Mirana Claire Angel , Salman Khan , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Camera trajectory design plays a crucial role in video production, serving as a fundamental tool for conveying directorial intent and enhancing visual storytelling. In cinematography, Directors of Photography meticulously craft camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mengchen Zhang , Tong Wu , Jing Tan , Ziwei Liu , Gordon Wetzstein , Dahua Lin

Visual tracking has yielded promising applications with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In literature, the advanced discriminative correlation filter (DCF) type trackers generally distinguish the foreground from the background with a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Yiming Li , Jin Jin , Chen Feng

Dynamic target detection and target tracking are hot issues in the field of image. In order to explore its application value in the field of mobile robot, a dynamic target detection and tracking system is designed based on hexapod robot.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Dexin Wang

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and rescue (SAR) and wildfire detection. In these operations, search efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Rushiv Arora , Saeede Enayati , Hossein Pishro-Nik

This project aimed to develop an automated cinematography platform using an unmanned aerial vehicle. Quadcopters are a great platform for shooting aerial scenes but are difficult to maneuver smoothly and can require expertise to pilot. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Animesh Nema , Christopher Grontkowski , Derek Calzada , Sanjuksha Nirgude