Towards natural language-guided drones: GeoText-1652 benchmark with spatial relation matching

M Chu, Z Zheng, W Ji, T Wang, TS Chua - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Navigating drones through natural language commands remains challenging due to the
dearth of accessible multi-modal datasets and the stringent precision requirements for …

Pinpointfly: An egocentric position-control drone interface using mobile ar

L Chen, K Takashima, K Fujita, Y Kitamura - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accurate drone positioning is challenging because pilots only have a limited position and
direction perception of a flying drone from their perspective. This makes conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Unmanned aerial vehicle control through domain-based automatic speech recognition

R Contreras, A Ayala, F Cruz - Computers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles, such as drones, are becoming a part of our lives and
extend to many areas of society, including the industrialized world. A common alternative for …

A UAV collaborative defense scheme driven by DDPG algorithm

Z Yaozhong, W Zhuoran, X Zhenkai… - Journal of Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm is an off-policy method that
combines two mainstream reinforcement learning methods based on value iteration and …

Word2Wave: Language Driven Mission Programming for Efficient Subsea Deployments of Marine Robots

R Chen, D Blow, A Abdullah, MJ Islam - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.18405, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper explores the design and development of a language-based interface for dynamic
mission programming of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The …

Aladdin's magic carpet: Navigation by in-air static hand gesture in autonomous vehicles

X Qian, W Ju, DM Sirkin - International Journal of Human …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a novel and exploratory investigation of how users might control future
autonomous vehicles with user-defined in-air static hand gestures. In the era of autonomous …

Iteratively Adding Latent Human Knowledge within Trajectory Optimization Specifications Improves Learning and Task Outcomes

CT Chang, MP Stull, B Crockett… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frictionless and understandable tasking is essential for leveraging human-autonomy
teaming in commercial, military, and public safety applications. Existing technology for …

Gesture commands for controlling high-level UAV behavior

J Akagi, TD Morris, B Moon, X Chen, CK Peterson - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Directing groups of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) is a task that typically requires the full
attention of several operators. This can be prohibitive in situations where an operator must …

Natural language based multimodal interface for UAV mission planning

M Chandarana, EL Meszaros… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
As the number of viable applications for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems increases
at an exponential rate, interfaces that reduce the reliance on highly skilled engineers and …

A surface electromyography controlled steering assistance interface

EJC Nacpil, R Zheng, T Kaizuka… - Journal of intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Purpose-Two-handed automobile steering at low vehicle speeds may lead to reduced
steering ability at large steering wheel angles and shoulder injury at high steering wheel …