MRS drone: A modular platform for real-world deployment of aerial multi-robot systems

D Hert, T Baca, P Petracek, V Kratky, R Penicka… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a modular autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform called
the Multi-robot System (MRS) Drone that can be used in a large range of indoor and outdoor …

Delayed Kalman filter for vision-based autonomous flight in ocean environments

K Gamagedara, T Lee, M Snyder - Control Engineering Practice, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents the developments of flight hardware and software for a multirotor
unmanned aerial vehicle, performing autonomous take-off and landing on a moving vessel …

UAV-USV docking control system based on motion compensation deck and attitude prediction

E Tian, Y Li, Y Liao, J Cao - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) possess excellent maritime detection capabilities
and have a fast cruising speed. Develo** a collaborative mission system including UAV …

Model predictive control-based trajectory generation for agile landing of unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving boat

O Procházka, F Novák, T Báča, PM Gupta, R Pěnička… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel trajectory generation method based on Model Predictive
Control (MPC) for agile landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) onto an Unmanned …

Maritime Emission Monitoring: Development and Testing of a UAV-Based Real-Time Wind Sensing Mission Planner Module

T Karachalios, P Moschos, T Orphanoudakis - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Maritime emissions contribute significantly to global pollution, necessitating accurate and
efficient monitoring methods. Traditional methods for tracking ship emissions often face …

A multimodal perception system for precise landing of uavs in offshore environments

RM Claro, FSP Neves, AMG Pinto - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of precise landing capabilities into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is
crucial for enabling autonomous operations, particularly in challenging environments such …

Robust distributed cooperative rendezvous control for heterogeneous marine vehicles using model predictive control

Z Jia, H Lu, H Chen, W Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the cooperative rendezvous problem for intelligent surface-
underwater heterogeneous marine systems and proposes a robust distributed model …

State estimation of marine vessels affected by waves by unmanned aerial vehicles

F Novák, T Báča, O Procházka, M Saska - Ocean Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
A novel approach for robust state estimation of marine vessels in rough water is proposed in
this paper to enable tight collaboration between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and a …

Towards uav-usv collaboration in harsh maritime conditions including large waves

F Novák, T Báča, O Procházka, M Saska - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.10163, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a system designed for tight collaboration between Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in harsh maritime conditions …

Distributed model predictive control for cooperative multirotor landing on uncrewed surface vessel in waves

J Stephenson, NT Duncan… - … Conference on Unmanned …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous autonomous robot teams consisting of multirotor and uncrewed surface
vessels (USVs) have the potential to enable various maritime applications, including …