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Adaptive Planning Framework for UAV-Based Surface Inspection in Partially Unknown Indoor Environments
Hanyu Jin, Zhefan Xu, Haoyu Shen +3
Inspecting indoor environments such as tunnels, industrial facilities, and construction sites is essential for infrastructure monitoring and maintenance. While manual inspection in…
LV-DOT: LiDAR-visual dynamic obstacle detection and tracking for autonomous robot navigation
Zhefan Xu, Haoyu Shen, Xinming Han +3
Accurate perception of dynamic obstacles is essential for autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments. Although sophisticated 3D object detection and tracking methods have b…
NavRL: Learning Safe Flight in Dynamic Environments
Zhefan Xu, Xinming Han, Haoyu Shen +2
Safe flight in dynamic environments requires unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to make effective decisions when navigating cluttered spaces with moving obstacles. Traditional approac…
Intent Prediction-Driven Model Predictive Control for UAV Planning and Navigation in Dynamic Environments
Zhefan Xu, Hanyu Jin, Xinming Han +2
Aerial robots can enhance construction site productivity by autonomously handling inspection and mapping tasks. However, ensuring safe navigation near human workers remains challen…
Heuristic-based Incremental Probabilistic Roadmap for Efficient UAV Exploration in Dynamic Environments
Zhefan Xu, Christopher Suzuki, Xiaoyang Zhan +1
Autonomous exploration in dynamic environments necessitates a planner that can proactively respond to changes and make efficient and safe decisions for robots. Although plenty of s…
Quadcopter Trajectory Time Minimization and Robust Collision Avoidance via Optimal Time Allocation
Zhefan Xu, Kenji Shimada
Autonomous navigation requires robots to generate trajectories for collision avoidance efficiently. Although plenty of previous works have proven successful in generating smooth an…