5 accepted papers
Traditional vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can not achieve optimal efficiency for various payload weights and has limited mobility due to its under-actuation. With the thrust-vectoring mechanism, the proposed modular team UAV is fully actuated at certain attitudes. However, the attain…
Automation application in crop harvesting has increased in the past decades. Various types of harvesting robots are emerging in both commercial and research areas. One of the main challenges is the precision alignment of the gripper and the target crop. An undesired dislocation can harm both the gri…
The inaccessibility of data from standard sensor suites on closed-platform unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been a hindrance to developing a compatible visual-inertial odometry (VIO). Despite the advance of recent VIO research, these works often emphasize fusing detailed sensor models with availa…
In this paper, a region-determined localization method applied for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is presented. The method aims to solve GNSS-denied localization problem using pole-like feature such as trees or street lights. The approach includes three parts: mapping, bounding, and localization. T…
Industrial robots play potential and important roles on labor-intensive and high-risk jobs. For example, typical industrial robots have been used in grinding process. However, the automatic grinding process by robots is a complex process because it still relies on skillful engineers to adaptively ad…