Abstract Application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in environments devoid of GNSS
(Global Navigation Satellite System) service has motivated research into GNSS …

Motion planning is a vital module for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in
scenarios of autonomous navigation and operation. This survey delivers some recent state …

Quadrotors are agile. Unlike most other machines, they can traverse extremely complex
environments at high speeds. To date, only expert human pilots have been able to fully …

Autonomous, agile quadrotor flight raises fundamental challenges for robotics research in
terms of perception, planning, learning, and control. A versatile and standardized platform is …

In this article, we tackle the problem of flying time-optimal trajectories through multiple
waypoints with quadrotors. State-of-the-art solutions split the problem into a planning task …

Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and
rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications …

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

Today's autonomous drones have reaction times of tens of milliseconds, which is not
enough for navigating fast in complex dynamic environments. To safely avoid fast moving …

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 development of a navigation system is one of the major challenges in building a fully
autonomous platform. Full autonomy requires a dependable navigation capability not only in …