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Hybrid Autonomy Framework for a Future Mars Science Helicopter
Luca Di Pierno, Robert Hewitt, Stephan Weiss +1
Autonomous aerial vehicles, such as NASA's Ingenuity, enable rapid planetary surface exploration beyond the reach of ground-based robots. Thus, NASA is studying a Mars Science Heli…
Geometry-aided Vision-based Localization of Future Mars Helicopters in Challenging Illumination Conditions
Dario Pisanti, Robert Hewitt, Roland Brockers +1
Planetary exploration using aerial assets has the potential for unprecedented scientific discoveries on Mars. While NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity proved flight in Martian atmosp…
INSANE: Cross-Domain UAV Data Sets with Increased Number of Sensors for developing Advanced and Novel Estimators
Christian Brommer, Alessandro Fornasier, Martin Scheiber +4
For real-world applications, autonomous mobile robotic platforms must be capable of navigating safely in a multitude of different and dynamic environments with accurate and robust…
Optimizing Terrain Mapping and Landing Site Detection for Autonomous UAVs
Pedro F. Proença, Jeff Delaune, Roland Brockers
The next generation of Mars rotorcrafts requires on-board autonomous hazard avoidance landing. To this end, this work proposes a system that performs continuous multi-resolution he…
Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery at Mars Using a Jetpack
Jeff Delaune, Jacob Izraelevitz, Samuel Sirlin +32
Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture to enable in situ mobility for Mars science at lower cost than previous missions. It uses…
Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft
Pascal Schoppmann, Pedro F. Proença, Jeff Delaune +5
In this paper, we propose a resource-efficient approach to provide an autonomous UAV with an on-board perception method to detect safe, hazard-free landing sites during flights ove…
Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry: Scale Observability Without Excitation
Jeff Delaune, David S. Bayard, Roland Brockers
Traveling at constant velocity is the most efficient trajectory for most robotics applications. Unfortunately without accelerometer excitation, monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (…
xVIO: A Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry Framework
Jeff Delaune, David S. Bayard, Roland Brockers
xVIO is a range-visual-inertial odometry algorithm implemented at JPL. It has been demonstrated with closed-loop controls on-board unmanned rotorcraft equipped with off-the-shelf e…
Long-Duration Fully Autonomous Operation of Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Systems for Remote-Sensing Data Acquisition
Danylo Malyuta, Christian Brommer, Daniel Hentzen +3
Recent applications of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to precision agriculture have shown increased ease and efficiency in data collection at precise remote locations. However, furt…
Disturbance Estimation and Rejection for High-Precision Multirotor Position Control
Daniel Hentzen, Thomas Stastny, Roland Siegwart +1
Many multirotor Unmanned Aerial Systems applications have a critical need for precise position control in environments with strong dynamic external disturbances such as wind gusts…
Long-Duration Autonomy for Small Rotorcraft UAS including Recharging
Christian Brommer, Danylo Malyuta, Daniel Hentzen +1
Many unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance and monitoring applications require observations at precise locations over long periods of time, ideally days or weeks at a time (e.g. eco…