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Adaptive AI: Energy Efficient Multi-exit TinyML on Intelligent Vision Systems at the Edge
Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Alessandro Giusti +1
Traditional TinyML systems for edge devices achieve high accuracy by relying on fixed-depth models that require a constant number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations regardless…
Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow: Adaptive Multimodal Transformer-based Sensor Fusion for Depth Estimation on Ultra-low-power MCUs
Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Giovanni Badaracco +3
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based multimodal sensor fusion is a relevant topic gaining ever more traction across ultra-low-power (ULP) embedded and cyber-physical systems, as it i…
Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs
Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti +2
The evolution of energy-efficient ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel processors and the diffusion of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are fueling the advent of autonomous driving n…
MR2-ByteTrack: CNN and Transformer-based Video Object Detection for AI-augmented Embedded Vision Sensor Nodes
Luca Bompani, Manuele Rusci, Luca Benini +2
Modern smart vision sensors need on-device intelligence to process video streams, as cloud computing is often impractical due to bandwidth, latency, and privacy constraints. Howeve…
TinyDEVO: Deep Event-based Visual Odometry on Ultra-low-power Multi-core Microcontrollers
Alessandro Marchei, Lorenzo Lamberti, Daniele Palossi +1
A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, fro…
Self-supervised Domain Adaptation for Visual 3D Pose Estimation of Nano-drone Racing Gates by Enforcing Geometric Consistency
Nicholas Carlotti, Michele Antonazzi, Elia Cereda +4
We consider the task of visually estimating the relative pose of a drone racing gate in front of a nano-quadrotor, using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on simulated dat…
Tiny-DroNeRF: Tiny Neural Radiance Fields aboard Federated Learning-enabled Nano-drones
Ilenia Carboni, Elia Cereda, Lorenzo Lamberti +3
Sub-30g nano-sized aerial robots can leverage their agility and form factor to autonomously explore cluttered and narrow environments, like in industrial inspection and search and…
NanoCockpit: Performance-optimized Application Framework for AI-based Autonomous Nanorobotics
Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi
Autonomous nano-drones, powered by vision-based tiny machine learning (TinyML) models, are a novel technology gaining momentum thanks to their broad applicability and pushing scien…
Multi-modal On-Device Learning for Monocular Depth Estimation on Ultra-low-power MCUs
Davide Nadalini, Manuele Rusci, Elia Cereda +3
Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a crucial role in enabling spatially-aware applications in Ultra-low-power (ULP) Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms. However, the limited num…
Nonlinear System Identification Nano-drone Benchmark
Riccardo Busetto, Elia Cereda, Marco Forgione +3
We introduce a benchmark for system identification based on 75k real-world samples from the Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless nano-quadrotor, a sub-50g aerial vehicle widely adopted in robot…
A Map-free Deep Learning-based Framework for Gate-to-Gate Monocular Visual Navigation aboard Miniaturized Aerial Vehicles
Lorenzo Scarciglia, Antonio Paolillo, Daniele Palossi
Palm-sized autonomous nano-drones, i.e., sub-50g in weight, recently entered the drone racing scenario, where they are tasked to avoid obstacles and navigate as fast as possible th…
An Efficient Ground-aerial Transportation System for Pest Control Enabled by AI-based Autonomous Nano-UAVs
Luca Crupi, Luca Butera, Alberto Ferrante +2
Efficient crop production requires early detection of pest outbreaks and timely treatments; we consider a solution based on a fleet of multiple autonomous miniaturized unmanned aer…
Accelerating Image-based Pest Detection on a Heterogeneous Multi-core Microcontroller
Luca Bompani, Luca Crupi, Daniele Palossi +5
The codling moth pest poses a significant threat to global crop production, with potential losses of up to 80% in apple orchards. Special camera-based sensor nodes are deployed in…
Training on the Fly: On-device Self-supervised Learning aboard Nano-drones within 20 mW
Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi
Miniaturized cyber-physical systems (CPSes) powered by tiny machine learning (TinyML), such as nano-drones, are becoming an increasingly attractive technology. Their small form fac…
Distilling Tiny and Ultra-fast Deep Neural Networks for Autonomous Navigation on Nano-UAVs
Lorenzo Lamberti, Lorenzo Bellone, Luka Macan +4
Nano-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are ideal candidates for flying Internet-of-Things smart sensors to collect information in narrow spaces. This requires ultra-fast naviga…
Tiny-PULP-Dronets: Squeezing Neural Networks for Faster and Lighter Inference on Multi-Tasking Autonomous Nano-Drones
Lorenzo Lamberti, Vlad Niculescu, Michał Barcis +4
Pocket-sized autonomous nano-drones can revolutionize many robotic use cases, such as visual inspection in narrow, constrained spaces, and ensure safer human-robot interaction due…
A Deep Learning-based Pest Insect Monitoring System for Ultra-low Power Pocket-sized Drones
Luca Crupi, Luca Butera, Alberto Ferrante +1
Smart farming and precision agriculture represent game-changer technologies for efficient and sustainable agribusiness. Miniaturized palm-sized drones can act as flexible smart sen…
Multi-resolution Rescored ByteTrack for Video Object Detection on Ultra-low-power Embedded Systems
Luca Bompani, Manuele Rusci, Daniele Palossi +2
This paper introduces Multi-Resolution Rescored Byte-Track (MR2-ByteTrack), a novel video object detection framework for ultra-low-power embedded processors. This method reduces th…
Fusing Multi-sensor Input with State Information on TinyML Brains for Autonomous Nano-drones
Luca Crupi, Elia Cereda, Daniele Palossi
Autonomous nano-drones (~10 cm in diameter), thanks to their ultra-low power TinyML-based brains, are capable of coping with real-world environments. However, due to their simplifi…
On-device Self-supervised Learning of Visual Perception Tasks aboard Hardware-limited Nano-quadrotors
Elia Cereda, Manuele Rusci, Alessandro Giusti +1
Sub-\SI{50}{\gram} nano-drones are gaining momentum in both academia and industry. Their most compelling applications rely on onboard deep learning models for perception despite se…
Adaptive Deep Learning for Efficient Visual Pose Estimation aboard Ultra-low-power Nano-drones
Beatrice Alessandra Motetti, Luca Crupi, Mustafa Omer Mohammed Elamin Elshaigi +4
Sub-10cm diameter nano-drones are gaining momentum thanks to their applicability in scenarios prevented to bigger flying drones, such as in narrow environments and close to humans.…
Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Robot Localization Using LED State Prediction as a Pretext Task
Mirko Nava, Nicholas Carlotti, Luca Crupi +2
We propose a novel self-supervised approach for learning to visually localize robots equipped with controllable LEDs. We rely on a few training samples labeled with position ground…
High-throughput Visual Nano-drone to Nano-drone Relative Localization using Onboard Fully Convolutional Networks
Luca Crupi, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi
Relative drone-to-drone localization is a fundamental building block for any swarm operations. We address this task in the context of miniaturized nano-drones, i.e., 10cm in diamet…
A Heterogeneous RISC-V based SoC for Secure Nano-UAV Navigation
Luca Valente, Alessandro Nadalini, Asif Veeran +12
The rapid advancement of energy-efficient parallel ultra-low-power (ULP) ucontrollers units (MCUs) is enabling the development of autonomous nano-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (na…