Robot operating system 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild

S Macenski, T Foote, B Gerkey, C Lalancette… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
The next chapter of the robotics revolution is well underway with the deployment of robots for
a broad range of commercial use cases. Even in a myriad of applications and environments …

A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild

X Zhou, X Wen, Z Wang, Y Gao, H Li, Q Wang… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Agilicious: Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight

P Foehn, E Kaufmann, A Romero, R Penicka, S Sun… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Autonomous, agile quadrotor flight raises fundamental challenges for robotics research in
terms of perception, planning, learning, and control. A versatile and standardized platform is …

Survey on anti-drone systems: Components, designs, and challenges

S Park, HT Kim, S Lee, H Joo, H Kim - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive survey on anti-drone systems. After drones were
released for non-military usages, drone incidents in the unarmed population are gradually …

The MRS UAV system: Pushing the frontiers of reproducible research, real-world deployment, and education with autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

T Baca, M Petrlik, M Vrba, V Spurny, R Penicka… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control and estimation system for
supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We …

The voliro omniorientational hexacopter: An agile and maneuverable tiltable-rotor aerial vehicle

M Kamel, S Verling, O Elkhatib… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extending the maneuverability of multirotors promises to yield a considerable increase in
their scope of applications, such as carrying out more challenging inspection tasks and …

A survey of open-source UAV flight controllers and flight simulators

E Ebeid, M Skriver, KH Terkildsen, K Jensen… - Microprocessors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The current disruptive innovation in civilian drone (UAV) applications has led to an
increased need for research and development in UAV technology. The key challenges …

Design, modeling and control of an omni-directional aerial vehicle

D Brescianini, R D'Andrea - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present the design and control of a novel six degrees-of-freedom aerial
vehicle. Based on a static force and torque analysis for generic actuator configurations, we …

Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments

K Mohta, M Watterson, Y Mulgaonkar… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most challenging tasks for a flying robot is to autonomously navigate between
target locations quickly and reliably while avoiding obstacles in its path, and with little to no a …