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20222026
most citedToward Appearance-based Autonomous Landing Site Identification for Multirotor Drones in Unstructured Environments

2 citations · 5 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.MM2026★ 2 cited

Reproducibility Companion Paper: Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to Localizing Flying Light Specks

Hamed Alimohammadzadeh, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Federico Cunico +1

This companion paper provides artifacts and instructions on replicating the experiments in the ACM Multimedia 2024 paper entitled "Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Toward Appearance-based Autonomous Landing Site Identification for Multirotor Drones in Unstructured Environments

Joshua Springer, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Marcel Kyas

A remaining challenge in multirotor drone flight is the autonomous identification of viable landing sites in unstructured environments. One approach to solve this problem is to cre…

cs.RO2024

Lowering Barriers to Entry for Fully-Integrated Custom Payloads on a DJI Matrice

Joshua Springer, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Marcel Kyas

Consumer-grade drones have become effective multimedia collection tools, spring-boarded by rapid development in embedded CPUs, GPUs, and cameras. They are best known for their abil…

cs.RO2024

A Precision Drone Landing System using Visual and IR Fiducial Markers and a Multi-Payload Camera

Joshua Springer, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Marcel Kyas

We propose a method for autonomous precision drone landing with fiducial markers and a gimbal-mounted, multi-payload camera with wide-angle, zoom, and IR sensors. The method has mi…

cs.RO2023

Autonomous Drone Landing: Marked Landing Pads and Solidified Lava Flows

Joshua Springer, Marcel Kyas

Landing is the most challenging and risky aspect of multirotor drone flight, and only simple landing methods exist for autonomous drones. We explore methods for autonomous drone la…

cs.RO2022

Autonomous Multirotor Landing on Landing Pads and Lava Flows

Joshua Springer

Landing is a challenging part of autonomous drone flight and a great research opportunity. This PhD proposes to improve on fiducial autonomous landing algorithms by making them mor…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Autonomous Drone Landing with Fiducial Markers and a Gimbal-Mounted Camera for Active Tracking

Joshua Springer, Marcel Kyas

Precision landing is a remaining challenge in autonomous drone flight. Fiducial markers provide a computationally cheap way for a drone to locate a landing pad and autonomously exe…

cs.CV2022

Evaluation of Orientation Ambiguity and Detection Rate in April Tag and WhyCode

Joshua Springer, Marcel Kyas

Fiducial systems provide a computationally cheap way for mobile robots to estimate the pose of objects, or their own pose, using just a monocular camera. However, the orientation c…