Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

A Al-Kaff, D Martin, F Garcia, A de la Escalera… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a complete review of computer vision algorithms and vision-based
intelligent applications, that are developed in the field of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles …

A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

Design and stable flight of a 21 g insect-like tailless flap** wing micro air vehicle with angular rates feedback control

HV Phan, T Kang, HC Park - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An insect-like tailless flap** wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) without feedback control
eventually becomes unstable after takeoff. Flying an insect-like tailless FW-MAV is more …

Design, aerodynamics and autonomy of the DelFly

GCHE De Croon, MA Groen, C De Wagter… - Bioinspiration & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the major challenges in robotics is to develop a fly-like robot that can autonomously
fly around in unknown environments. In this paper, we discuss the current state of the DelFly …

First results in detecting and avoiding frontal obstacles from a monocular camera for micro unmanned aerial vehicles

T Mori, S Scherer - 2013 IEEE international conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstacle avoidance is desirable for lightweight micro aerial vehicles and is a challenging
problem since the payload constraints only permit monocular cameras and obstacles cannot …

A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection

L Lu, G Fasano, A Carrio, M Lei, H Bavle… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been confirmed as a powerful tool
for countless applications in nearly every industry, in which collision avoidance plays a vital …

Obstacle detection and avoidance system based on monocular camera and size expansion algorithm for UAVs

A Al-Kaff, F García, D Martín, A De La Escalera… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
One of the most challenging problems in the domain of autonomous aerial vehicles is the
designing of a robust real-time obstacle detection and avoidance system. This problem is …

Autonomous flight of a 20-gram flap** wing mav with a 4-gram onboard stereo vision system

C De Wagter, S Tijmons, BDW Remes… - … on Robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous flight of Flap** Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) is a major challenge in
the field of robotics, due to their light weight and the flap**-induced body motions. In this …

Obstacle avoidance based-visual navigation for micro aerial vehicles

WG Aguilar, VP Casaliglla, JL Pólit - Electronics, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper describes an obstacle avoidance system for low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) using vision as the principal source of information through the monocular onboard …

Review of conflict resolution methods for manned and unmanned aviation

M Ribeiro, J Ellerbroek, J Hoekstra - Aerospace, 2020 - mdpi.com
Current investigations into urban aerial mobility, as well as the continuing growth of global
air transportation, have renewed interest in Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R) …