Voxnet: A 3d convolutional neural network for real-time object recognition

D Maturana, S Scherer - 2015 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust object recognition is a crucial skill for robots operating autonomously in real world
environments. Range sensors such as LiDAR and RGBD cameras are increasingly found in …

3d convolutional neural networks for landing zone detection from lidar

D Maturana, S Scherer - 2015 IEEE international conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a system for the detection of small and potentially obscured obstacles in
vegetated terrain. The key novelty of this system is the coupling of a volumetric occupancy …

Data-driven planning via imitation learning

S Choudhury, M Bhardwaj, S Arora… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Robot planning is the process of selecting a sequence of actions that optimize for a task=
specific objective. For instance, the objective for a navigation task would be to find collision …

Emergency flight planning for an energy-constrained multicopter

AJ Ten Harmsel, IJ Olson, EM Atkins - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have diverse commercial applications.
Risk mitigation techniques must be developed to minimize the probability of harm to persons …

Results of the pilot assistance system “Assisted Low-Level Flight and Landing on Unprepared Landing Sites” obtained with the ACT/FHS research rotorcraft

S Greiser, R Lantzsch, J Wolfram, J Wartmann… - Aerospace Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The DLR project ALLFlight (Assisted Low-Level Flight and Landing on Unprepared
Landing Sites) deals with the development of a helicopter pilot assistance system, to provide …

An Automated Emergency Landing System for Fixed‐Wing Aircraft: Planning and Control

M Warren, L Mejias, J Kok, X Yang… - Journal of Field …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A number of hurdles must be overcome in order to integrate unmanned aircraft into civilian
airspace for routine operations. The ability of the aircraft to land safely in an emergency is …

Bayesian active edge evaluation on expensive graphs

S Choudhury, S Srinivasa, S Scherer - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.07329, 2017 - arxiv.org
Robots operate in environments with varying implicit structure. For instance, a helicopter
flying over terrain encounters a very different arrangement of obstacles than a robotic arm …

[PDF][PDF] TALOS: An unmanned cargo delivery system for rotorcraft landing to unprepared sites

J Paduano, J Wissler, G Drozeski… - American Helicopter …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This paper describes the Tactical Autonomous Aerial LOgistics System (TALOS), developed
and flight tested during the first phase of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Autonomous …

A κite in the wind: Smooth trajectory optimization in a moving reference frame

V Dugar, S Choudhury… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A significant challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles capable of flying long distances is
planning in a wind field. Although there has been a plethora of work on the individual topics …

[BOOK][B] Informed anytime search for continuous planning problems

JD Gammell - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Navigating uncontrolled dynamic environments is a major challenge in robotics. Success
requires solving many different technical problems and path planning is a key component of …