4 accepted papers
This paper presents an autonomous approach for landing a quadrotor on inclined surfaces up to 40 degrees using radar perception in a high particle environment, such as dust, rain, or fog. This system uses five radar sensors to determine the direction, angle, and smoothness of a slope through eigenva…
We present a lightweight real-time method to extract 3D ego-motion using a range flow constraint equation, point patch covariance, and a least squares solution. Our method exploits the structured data provided by range sensors, like rotating LiDARs, to attain 6 DOF odometry without building a map or
We present an autonomous quadrotor capable of safely landing on sloped surfaces up to 40 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">°</sup> , intended for emergency scenarios where the only terrain available for landing may be sloped. This system u
In this work we present a Four-Wheeled Independent Drive and Steering (4WIDS) robot named AGRO and a method of controlling its orientation while airborne using wheel reaction torques. This is the first documented use of independently steerable wheels to both drive on the ground and achieve aerial at…