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Free as a Bird: Event-based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight
J. P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, M. M. Guzmán +2
Autonomous flight of flapping-wing robots is a major challenge for robot perception. Most of the previous sense-and-avoid works have studied the problem of obstacle avoidance for f…
Experimental Energy Consumption Analysis of a Flapping-Wing Robot
Raul Tapia, Alvaro Cesar Satue, Saeed Rafee Nekoo +2
One of the motivations for exploring flapping-wing aerial robotic systems is to seek energy reduction, by maintaining manoeuvrability, compared to conventional unmanned aerial syst…
Autonomous Aerial Filming With Distributed Lighting by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Vít Krátký, Alfonso Alcántara, Jesús Capitán +3
This letter describes a method for autonomous aerial cinematography with distributed lighting by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Although camera-carrying multi-rotor hel…
A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks
Giuseppe Silano, Jan Bednar, Tiago Nascimento +3
This paper presents a multi-layer software architecture to perform cooperative missions with a fleet of quadrotors providing support in electrical power line inspection operations.…
ASAP: Adaptive Scheme for Asynchronous Processing of Event-based Vision Algorithms
Raul Tapia, Augusto Gómez Eguíluz, José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios +1
Event cameras can capture pixel-level illumination changes with very high temporal resolution and dynamic range. They have received increasing research interest due to their robust…
How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch
Raphael Zufferey, Jesus Tormo Barbero, Daniel Feliu Talegon +3
Flapping wings are a bio-inspired method to produce lift and thrust in aerial robots, leading to quiet and efficient motion. The advantages of this technology are safety and maneuv…
A flexible propelled arm: Mechanical considerations for the use in UAVs
Fernando Ruiz, Begoña Arrue, Aníbal Ollero
This paper presents a soft propelled arm, 3D-printed in TPU 70A, designed to be used in flexible UAVs, an advantageous concept since it reduces risk in the event of a collision tha…
Perception-Aware Perching on Powerlines with Multirotors
Julio L. Paneque, Jose Ramiro Martínez de Dios, Aníbal Ollero. Drew Hanover +3
Multirotor aerial robots are becoming widely used for the inspection of powerlines. To enable continuous, robust inspection without human intervention, the robots must be able to p…
The GRIFFIN Perception Dataset: Bridging the Gap Between Flapping-Wing Flight and Robotic Perception
J. P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, J. L. Paneque +4
The development of automatic perception systems and techniques for bio-inspired flapping-wing robots is severely hampered by the high technical complexity of these platforms and th…
Kinodynamic Planning for an Energy-Efficient Autonomous Ornithopter
Fabio Rodríguez, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Ernesto Sanchez-Laulhe +2
This paper presents a novel algorithm to plan energy-efficient trajectories for autonomous ornithopters. In general, trajectory optimization is quite a relevant problem for practic…
Optimal Trajectory Planning for Cinematography with Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Alfonso Alcántara, Jesús Capitán, Rita Cunha +1
This paper presents a method for planning optimal trajectories with a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing autonomous cinematography. The method is able to plan traje…
Autonomous Execution of Cinematographic Shots with Multiple Drones
Alfonso Alcántara, Jesús Capitán, Arturo Torres-González +2
This paper presents a system for the execution of autonomous cinematography missions with a team of drones. The system allows media directors to design missions involving different…
Autonomous Planning for Multiple Aerial Cinematographers
Luis-Evaristo Caraballo, Ángel Montes-Romero, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez +3
This paper proposes a planning algorithm for autonomous media production with multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in outdoor events. Given filming tasks specified by a media D…
A framework for synchronizing a team of aerial robots in communication-limited environments
J. M. Díaz-Báñez, L. E. Caraballo, M. A. Lopez +3
This paper addresses a synchronization problem that arises when a team of aerial robots (ARs) need to communicate while performing assigned tasks in a cooperative scenario. Each ro…