Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots

GCHE de Croon, JJG Dupeyroux, SB Fuller… - Science robotics, 2022‏ - science.org
Autonomous robots are expected to perform a wide range of sophisticated tasks in complex,
unknown environments. However, available onboard computing capabilities and algorithms …

A survey on optimized implementation of deep learning models on the nvidia jetson platform

S Mittal - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Design of hardware accelerators for neural network (NN) applications involves
walking a tight rope amidst the constraints of low-power, high accuracy and throughput …

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

The foldable drone: A morphing quadrotor that can squeeze and fly

D Falanga, K Kleber, S Mintchev… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have
significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, map**, and …

Minimal navigation solution for a swarm of tiny flying robots to explore an unknown environment

KN McGuire, C De Wagter, K Tuyls, HJ Kappen… - Science Robotics, 2019‏ - science.org
Swarms of tiny flying robots hold great potential for exploring unknown, indoor
environments. Their small size allows them to move in narrow spaces, and their light weight …

Enhancing optical-flow-based control by learning visual appearance cues for flying robots

GCHE de Croon, C De Wagter, T Seidl - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021‏ - nature.com
Flying insects employ elegant optical-flow-based strategies to solve complex tasks such as
landing or obstacle avoidance. Roboticists have mimicked these strategies on flying robots …

A comprehensive review on reconfigurable drones: Classification, characteristics, design and control technologies

SH Derrouaoui, Y Bouzid, M Guiatni, I Dib - Unmanned Systems, 2022‏ - World Scientific
Recently, reconfigurable drones have gained particular attention in the field of automation
and flying robots. Unlike the conventional drones, they are characterized by a variable …

Autonomous drone race: A computationally efficient vision-based navigation and control strategy

S Li, MMOI Ozo, C De Wagter… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Drone racing is becoming a popular sport where human pilots have to control their drones to
fly at high speed through complex environments and pass a number of gates in a pre …

Accommodating unobservability to control flight attitude with optic flow

GCHE De Croon, JJG Dupeyroux, C De Wagter… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Attitude control is an essential flight capability. Whereas flying robots commonly rely on
accelerometers for estimating attitude, flying insects lack an unambiguous sense of gravity …

Evdodgenet: Deep dynamic obstacle dodging with event cameras

NJ Sanket, CM Parameshwara… - … on Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic obstacle avoidance on quadrotors requires low latency. A class of sensors that are
particularly suitable for such scenarios are event cameras. In this paper, we present a deep …