Fast-livo2: Fast, direct lidar-inertial-visual odometry

C Zheng, W Xu, Z Zou, T Hua, C Yuan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents FAST-LIVO2, a fast and direct LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry
framework designed for accurate and robust state estimation in SLAM tasks, enabling real …

Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs

Y Ren, F Zhu, G Lu, Y Cai, L Yin, F Kong, J Lin… - Science Robotics, 2025 - science.org
Micro air vehicles (MAVs) capable of high-speed autonomous navigation in unknown
environments have the potential to improve applications like search and rescue and disaster …

Swarm-LIO2: Decentralized, Efficient LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for UAV Swarms

F Zhu, Y Ren, L Yin, F Kong, Q Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial swarm systems possess immense potential in various aspects, such as cooperative
exploration, target tracking, search and rescue. Efficient, accurate self and mutual state …

Integrated Planning and Control for Quadrotor Navigation in Presence of Suddenly Appearing Objects and Disturbances

W Liu, Y Ren, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous flight for quadrotors in environments with suddenly appearing objects and
disturbances still faces significant challenges. In this work, we propose an integrated …

A Vision Dynamics Learning Approach to Robotic Navigation in Unstructured Environments

C Ginerica, M Zaha, L Floroian, D Cojocaru… - Robotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Autonomous legged navigation in unstructured environments is still an open problem which
requires the ability of an intelligent agent to detect and react to potential obstacles found in …

Path generation for wheeled robots autonomous navigation on vegetated terrain

Z Jian, Z Liu, H Shao, X Wang, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wheeled robot navigation has been widely used in urban environments, but navigation in
wild vegetation is still challenging. External sensors (LiDAR, camera etc.) are often used to …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid in-flight image quality check for UAV-enabled bridge inspection

F Wang, Y Zou, X Chen, C Zhang, L Hou… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Combining Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and close-range photogrammetry
has become a safer, more efficient, and cost-effective solution for bridge inspection …

Autonomous Tail-Sitter Flights in Unknown Environments

G Lu, Y Ren, F Zhu, H Li, R Xue, Y Cai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory generation for fully autonomous flights of tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) presents substantial challenges due to their highly nonlinear aerodynamics. In this …

Risk-Inspired Aerial Active Exploration for Enhancing Autonomous Driving of UGV in Unknown Off-Road Environments

R Wang, M Fu, J Yu, Y Yang… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unknown area exploration is a crucial but challenging task for autonomous driving of
unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) in unknown off-road environments. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing Autonomous Multi-UAV Path Planning for Inspection Missions: A Comparative Study of Genetic and Stochastic Hill Climbing Algorithms

F Aljalaud, Y Alohali - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Efficient path planning is vital for multi-UAV inspection missions, yet the comparative
effectiveness of different optimization strategies has not received much attention. This paper …