11 papers
Count Every Rotation and Every Rotation Counts: Exploring Drone Dynamics via Propeller Sensing
Xuecheng Chen, Jingao Xu, Wenhua Ding +7
As drone-based applications proliferate, paramount contactless sensing of airborne drones from the ground becomes indispensable. This work demonstrates concentrating on propeller r…
Enabling High-Frequency Cross-Modality Visual Positioning Service for Accurate Drone Landing
Haoyang Wang, Xinyu Luo, Wenhua Ding +7
After years of growth, drone-based delivery is transforming logistics. At its core, real-time 6-DoF drone pose tracking enables precise flight control and accurate drone landing. W…
Flight Dynamics to Sensing Modalities: Exploiting Drone Ground Effect for Accurate Edge Detection
Chenyu Zhao, Jingao Xu, Ciyu Ruan +9
Drone-based rapid and accurate environmental edge detection is highly advantageous for tasks such as disaster relief and autonomous navigation. Current methods, using radars or cam…
iPanda: An LLM-based Agent for Automated Conformance Testing of Communication Protocols
Xikai Sun, Fan Dang, Shiqi Jiang +8
Conformance testing is essential for ensuring that protocol implementations comply with their specifications. However, traditional testing approaches involve manually creating nume…
mmE-Loc: Facilitating Accurate Drone Landing with Ultra-High-Frequency Localization
Haoyang Wang, Jingao Xu, Xinyu Luo +8
For precise, efficient, and safe drone landings, ground platforms should real-time, accurately locate descending drones and guide them to designated spots. While mmWave sensing com…
Aerial Shepherds: Enabling Hierarchical Localization in Heterogeneous MAV Swarms
Haoyang Wang, Jingao Xu, Chenyu Zhao +6
A heterogeneous micro aerial vehicles (MAV) swarm consists of resource-intensive but expensive advanced MAVs (AMAVs) and resource-limited but cost-effective basic MAVs (BMAVs), off…