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most citedFree as a Bird: Event-based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight

55 citations · 104 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2025

Range-Only Localization System for Small-Scale Flapping-Wing Robots

Raul Tapia, Ivan Gutierrez Rodriguez, Javier Luna-Santamaria +2

The design of localization systems for small-scale flapping-wing aerial robots faces relevant challenges caused by the limited payload and onboard computational resources. This pap…

cs.RO2023★ 55 cited

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…

cs.RO2023

A Comparison between Frame-based and Event-based Cameras for Flapping-Wing Robot Perception

Raul Tapia, Juan Pablo Rodríguez-Gómez, Juan Antonio Sanchez-Diaz +5

Perception systems for ornithopters face severe challenges. The harsh vibrations and abrupt movements caused during flapping are prone to produce motion blur and strong lighting co…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

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…

cs.RO2022★ 6 cited

ASAP: Adaptive Transmission Scheme for Online Processing of Event-based Algorithms

Raul Tapia, José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios, Augusto Gómez Eguíluz +1

Online event-based perception techniques on board robots navigating in complex, unstructured, and dynamic environments can suffer unpredictable changes in the incoming event rates…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

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…

cs.RO2021★ 35 cited

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…