6 papers
MinNav: Minimalist Navigation Using Optical Flow For Active Tiny Aerial Robots
Aniket Patil, Mandeep Singh, Uday Girish Maradana +1
Navigation using a monocular camera is pivotal for autonomous operation on tiny aerial robots due to their perfect balance of versatility, cost and accuracy. In this paper, we intr…
NightSight: Passive Computation for Navigation in Dark Using Events
Deepak Singh, Brijan Vaghasiya, Shreyas Khobragade +1
Small aerial robots are particularly well-suited for search and rescue in confined and hazardous environments due to their agility, low cost, and ability to traverse through clutte…
Saranga: MilliWatt Ultrasound for Navigation in Visually Degraded Environments on Palm-Sized Aerial Robots
Manoj Velmurugan, Phillip Brush, Colin Balfour +2
Tiny palm-sized aerial robots possess exceptional agility and cost-effectiveness in navigating confined and cluttered environments. However, their limited payload capacity directly…
AsterNav: Autonomous Aerial Robot Navigation In Darkness Using Passive Computation
Deepak Singh, Shreyas Khobragade, Nitin J. Sanket
Autonomous aerial navigation in absolute darkness is crucial for post-disaster search and rescue operations, which often occur from disaster-zone power outages. Yet, due to resourc…
VizFlyt: Perception-centric Pedagogical Framework For Autonomous Aerial Robots
Kushagra Srivastava, Rutwik Kulkarni, Manoj Velmurugan +1
Autonomous aerial robots are becoming commonplace in our lives. Hands-on aerial robotics courses are pivotal in training the next-generation workforce to meet the growing market de…
EdgeFlowNet: 100FPS@1W Dense Optical Flow For Tiny Mobile Robots
Sai Ramana Kiran Pinnama Raju, Rishabh Singh, Manoj Velmurugan +1
Optical flow estimation is a critical task for tiny mobile robotics to enable safe and accurate navigation, obstacle avoidance, and other functionalities. However, optical flow est…