Paul A. Beardsley — accepted AI-conference papers

2019

A Virtual Reality Interface for an Autonomous Spray Painting UAV

Anurag Sai Vempati, Harshit Khurana, Vojtech Kabelka, Simon Flueckiger, Roland Siegwart, Paul A. Beardsley

RA-L 2019

PaintCopter is an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of spray painting on complex three-dimensional (3D) surfaces. This letter aims to make PaintCopter more user-friendly and to enable more intuitive human–robot interaction. We propose a virtual reality interface that allows the user t

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2018

Automatic Segmentation of Tree Structure From Point Cloud Data

Sundara Tejaswi Digumarti, Juan I. Nieto, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Paul A. Beardsley

RA-L 2018

Methods for capturing and modeling vegetation, such as trees or plants, typically distinguish between two components-branch skeleton and foliage. Current methods do not provide quantitatively accurate tree structure and foliage density needed for applications such as visualization, inspection, or to

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2018

PaintCopter: An Autonomous UAV for Spray Painting on Three-Dimensional Surfaces

Anurag Sai Vempati, Mina Kamel, Nikola Stilinovic, Qixuan Zhang, Dorothea Reusser, Inkyu Sa +3

RA-L 2018

This letter describes a system for autonomous spray painting using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), suitable for industrial applications. The work is motivated by the potential for such a system to achieve accurate and fast painting results. The PaintCopter is a quadrotor that has been custom fitte

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