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Occlusion-Aware Ground Target Search by a UAV in an Urban Environment
Collin Hague, Artur Wolek
This paper considers the problem of searching for a point of interest (POI) moving along an urban road network with an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is modeled as a variab…
Design and Flight Demonstration of a Quadrotor for Urban Mapping and Target Tracking Research
Collin Hague, Nick Kakavitsas, Jincheng Zhang +3
This paper describes the hardware design and flight demonstration of a small quadrotor with imaging sensors for urban mapping, hazard avoidance, and target tracking research. The v…
GPU-Accelerated 3D Polygon Visibility Volumes for Synergistic Perception and Navigation
Andrew Willis, Collin Hague, Artur Wolek +1
UAV missions often require specific geometric constraints to be satisfied between ground locations and the vehicle location. Such requirements are typical for contexts where line-o…
Cesium Tiles for High-realism Simulation and Comparing SLAM Results in Corresponding Virtual and Real-world Environments
Chris Beam, Jincheng Zhang, Nicholas Kakavitsas +3
This article discusses the use of a simulated environment to predict algorithm results in the real world. Simulators are crucial in allowing researchers to test algorithms, sensor…