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For real applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, the capability of navigating with full autonomy in unknown environments is a crucial requirement. However, planning a shorter path with less computing time is contradictory. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Han Chen , Shengyang Chen , Peng Lu , Chih-Yung Wen

In recent years, using drone, also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in close-distance visual inspection has became an active area in many disciplines. However, many challenges still remain before we can achieve autonomous inspection,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

Today, low-altitude fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are largely limited to primitively follow user-defined waypoints. To allow fully-autonomous remote missions in complex environments, real-time environment-aware navigation is…

The movie industry has been using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a new tool to produce more and more complex and aesthetic camera shots. However, the shooting process currently rely on manual control of the drones which makes it difficult and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Julien Fleureau , Quentin Galvane , François-Louis Tariolle , Philippe Guillotel

While using drones for remote surveillance missions, it is mandatory to do path planning of the vehicle since these are pilot-less vehicles. Path planning, whether offline or online, entails setting up the path as a sequence of locations in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Hrishikesh Sharma , Tom Sebastian

Despite achieving remarkable progress in recent years, single-image super-resolution methods are developed with several limitations. Specifically, they are trained on fixed content domains with certain degradations (whether synthetic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaoyu Lin , Baran Ozaydin , Vidit Vidit , Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

The use of delivery services is an increasing trend worldwide, further enhanced by the COVID pandemic. In this context, drone delivery systems are of great interest as they may allow for faster and cheaper deliveries. This paper presents a…

We present the first scene-update aerial path planning algorithm specifically designed for detecting and updating change areas in urban environments. While existing methods for large-scale 3D urban scene reconstruction focus on achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mingfeng Tang , Ningna Wang , Ziyuan Xie , Jianwei Hu , Ke Xie , Xiaohu Guo , Hui Huang

This paper presents a strategy to guide a mobile ground robot equipped with a camera or depth sensor, in order to autonomously map the visible part of a bounded three-dimensional structure. We describe motion planning algorithms that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal , André Phu-Van Nguyen , Jerome Le Ny

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexey Kotcov , Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Sausar Karaf , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Aerial filming is constantly gaining importance due to the recent advances in drone technology. It invites many intriguing, unsolved problems at the intersection of aesthetical and scientific challenges. In this work, we propose a deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mirko Gschwindt , Efe Camci , Rogerio Bonatti , Wenshan Wang , Erdal Kayacan , Sebastian Scherer

his paper presents a simple approach for drone navigation to follow a predetermined path using visual input only without reliance on a Global Positioning System (GPS). A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used to output the steering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 M. Samy , K. Amer , M. Shaker , M. ElHelw

Drones are a versatile platform for both amateur and professional photographers, enabling them to capture photos that are impossible to shoot with ground-based cameras. However, when guided by inexperienced pilots, they have a high…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Saif Alabachi , Gita Sukthankar

We address the problem of assigning a team of drones to autonomously capture a set desired shots of a dynamic target in the presence of obstacles. We present a two-stage planning pipeline that generates offline an assignment of drone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Aaron Ray , Alyssa Pierson , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora , Daniela Rus

Drones are enabling new forms of cinematography. However, quadrotor cinematography requires accurate comprehension of the scene, technical skill of flying, artistic skill of composition and simultaneous realization of all the requirements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yuanjie Dang

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

Drones have a fairly short range due to their limited battery life. We propose an adaptive exploration techniques to extend the range of drones by taking advantage of physical structures such as tall buildings and trees in urban…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Tsz-Chiu Au

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments. More recently yet still in the context of wireless networks, drones have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Gesbert , Omid Esrafilian , Junting Chen , Rajeev Gangula , Urbashi Mitra

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