4 accepted papers
Suitable datasets are an integral part of robotics research, especially for training neural networks in robot perception. However, in many domains, suitable real-world data are scarce and cannot be easily obtained. This problem is especially prevalent for unstructured outdoor environments, in partic…
To many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designs, the lack of information about the wind speed and direction is a limiting factor in achieving robust outdoor flight. This paper addresses the problem of wind estimation onboard a hovering vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) tailsitter UAV. The proposed…
A taxonomy for gesture-based interaction between a human and a group (swarm) of robots is described. Methods are classified into two categories. First, free-form interaction, where the robots are unconstrained in position and motion and the user can use deictic gestures to select subsets of robots a…
M-estimators are the de-facto standard method of robust estimation in robotics. They are easily incorporated into iterative non-linear least-squares estimation and provide seamless and effective handling of outliers in data. However, every M-estimator's robust loss function has one or more tuning pa…