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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.…
Efficient and safe trajectory planning plays a critical role in the application of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles. Currently, the inherent trade-off between constraint compliance and computational efficiency enhancement in UAV…
In this paper, we introduce a trajectory planning problem for a marsupial robotics system consisting of a ground robot, a drone, and a taut tether of bounded length connecting the two robots. This problem can be framed within the context of…
This paper presents a comprehensive methodology for implementing knowledge graphs in ROS 2 systems, aiming to enhance the efficiency and intelligence of autonomous robotic missions. The methodology encompasses several key steps: defining…
This paper presents an optimization-based receding horizon trajectory planning algorithm for dynamical systems operating in unstructured and cluttered environments. The proposed approach is a two-step procedure that uses a motion planning…
In the project, the vehicle was first controlled with ROS. For this purpose, the necessary nodes were prepared to be controlled with a joystick. Afterwards, DWA(Dynamic Window Approach), TEB(Timed-Elastic Band) and APF(Artificial Potential…
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…
Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can guide the design of efficient resource allocation strategies in a network of multiple sources and targets. This paper applies discrete OT to a swarm of UAVs in a novel way to achieve…
We address the problem of routing a team of drones and trucks over large-scale urban road networks. To conserve their limited flight energy, drones can use trucks as temporary modes of transit en route to their own destinations. Such…
Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…
Recent papers have shown optimally-competitive on-line strategies for a robot traveling from a point $s$ to a point $t$ in certain unknown geometric environments. We consider the question: Having gained some partial information about the…
Gradient-based trajectory optimization (GTO) has gained wide popularity for quadrotor trajectory replanning. However, it suffers from local minima, which is not only fatal to safety but also unfavorable for smooth navigation. In this paper,…
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…
Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…
This article describes a software package called ROS georegistration intended for use with the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the Gazebo 3D simulation environment. ROSgeoregistration provides tools for the simulation, test and deployment…
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator systems (AUVMS) is a new tool for ocean exploration, the AUVMS path planning problem is addressed in this paper. AUVMS is a high dimension system with a large difference in inertia distribution,…
This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…
For enabling efficient, large-scale coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under the labeled setting, in this work, we develop the first polynomial time algorithm for the reconfiguration of many moving bodies in three-dimensional…
We consider a problem called task ordering with path uncertainty (TOP-U) where multiple robots are provided with a set of task locations to visit in a bounded environment, but the length of the path between a pair of task locations is…
The growing demand for drone navigation in urban and restricted airspaces requires real-time path planning that is both safe and scalable. Classical methods often struggle with the computational load of high-dimensional optimization under…