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most citedDeep Neural Network Architecture Search for Accurate Visual Pose Estimation aboard Nano-UAVs

8 citations · 17 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AR2026

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…

eess.IV2026

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…

cs.RO2025★ 7 cited

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…

eess.IV2024

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…

cs.CV2024

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…

cs.RO2024

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…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

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.…

cs.RO2024

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…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.RO2023

Sim-to-Real Vision-depth Fusion CNNs for Robust Pose Estimation Aboard Autonomous Nano-quadcopter

Luca Crupi, Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti +1

Nano-quadcopters are versatile platforms attracting the interest of both academia and industry. Their tiny form factor, i.e., 10 cm diameter, makes them particularly useful in…

cs.RO2023★ 8 cited

Deep Neural Network Architecture Search for Accurate Visual Pose Estimation aboard Nano-UAVs

Elia Cereda, Luca Crupi, Matteo Risso +5

Miniaturized autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging and trending topic. With their form factor as big as the palm of one hand, they can reach spots otherwise in…