5 accepted papers
In this paper, a soft rotary wing robot capable of flight and control is presented. The Collapsible Airfoil Single Actuator ROtor-craft (CASARO) is a single actuator monocopter that derives its geometric properties from the Samara seed. CASARO achieves better flight efficiency, lift, and handling er
This letter details the design and development of a novel 3D-printed, lightweight and rapid-curing automated payload installation system for aerial robots, using a 3D printed resin-filled adhesive carrier tile (ACT). Its structure is designed to fracture and disperse ultraviolet (UV) curable resin o
Feature-based methods are a popular method for camera state estimation using event cameras. Due to the spatiotemporal nature of events, all event images exhibit smearing of events analogous to motion blur for a camera under motion. As such, events must be motion compensated to derive a sharp event i…
For fast-moving event cameras, projection of events onto the image frame exhibits smearing of events analogous to high motion blur. For camera attitude estimation, this presents a causality dilemma where motion prior is required to unsmear events, but an image prior is required to estimate motion. T
Pose estimation is of paramount importance for flight control as well as localization and navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enable autonomous operations. In environments without GPS, such estimation can only be determined using onboard sensors; optical flow using a monocular camera is…