Autonomous aerial robotics for package delivery: A technical review

J Saunders, S Saeedi, W Li - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest in the last decade.
More specifically these vehicles have the capacity to impact package delivery logistics in a …

Uav positioning mechanisms in landing stations: Classification and engineering design review

M Galimov, R Fedorenko, A Klimchik - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landing platforms' automation is aimed at servicing vertical take-off and landing UAVs
between flights and maintaining their airworthiness. Over the last few years, different …

Visual servoing approach to autonomous uav landing on a moving vehicle

A Keipour, GAS Pereira, R Bonatti, R Garg, P Rastogi… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many aerial robotic applications require the ability to land on moving platforms, such as
delivery trucks and marine research boats. We present a method to autonomously land an …

Vision techniques for on‐board detection, following, and map** of moving targets

P Štěpán, T Krajník, M Petrlík… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents computer vision modules of a multi‐unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
system, which scored gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Mohamed Bin Zayed …

Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2017: Fast landing on a moving target and treasure hunting with a team of micro aerial vehicles

M Beul, M Nieuwenhuisen, J Quenzel… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 has
defined ambitious new benchmarks to advance the state‐of‐the‐art in autonomous …

Autonomous aerial delivery vehicles, a survey of techniques on how aerial package delivery is achieved

J Saunders, S Saeedi, W Li - ar** with an autonomous MAV at MBZIRC 2020
M Beul, S Bultmann, A Rochow… - … on Safety, Security …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visually guided control of micro aerial vehicles (MAV) demands for robust real-time
perception, fast trajectory generation, and a capable flight platform. We present a fully …

The UNICT-TEAM Vision Modules for the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020

S Battiato, L Cantelli, F D'Urso, GM Farinella… - … on Computer Vision and …, 2022 - Springer
Real-world advanced robotics applications cannot be conceived without the employment of
onboard visual perception. By perception we refer not only to image acquisition, but more …

[PDF][PDF] Fabio D'Urso

C Santoro - iris.unict.it
In recent years usage of small remotely piloted aircraft (also known as drones or UAVs,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) has been spreading, usually quadrotors or hexarotors. They are …