8 papers
Aerial Inspection Behaviors via RL-based Quadrotor Control for Under-canopy Forest Environments
Fausto Mauricio Lagos Suarez, Akshit Saradagi, Vidya Sumathy +2
This paper addresses the problem of using a deep Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based low-level Quadrotor controller within an autonomous Quadrotor navigation stack for aerial inspect…
Reactive Robot-Centric Safety for Autonomous Navigation in Constrained and Dynamic Environments
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh K. Viswanathan, Akshit Saradagi +2
In this work, we address the problem of ensuring real-time safety in autonomous robot navigation, in spatially constrained dynamic environments, by utilizing only onboard sensors.…
Cloud-Assisted Remote Control for Aerial Robots: From Theory to Proof-of-Concept Implementation
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Gerasimos Damigos +2
Cloud robotics has emerged as a promising technology for robotics applications due to its advantages of offloading computationally intensive tasks, facilitating data sharing, and e…
Barriers on the EDGE: A scalable CBF architecture over EDGE for safe aerial-ground multi-agent coordination
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Akshit Saradagi +2
In this article, we propose a control architecture for the safe, coordinated operation of a multi-agent system with aerial (UAVs) and ground (UGVs) robots in a confined task space.…
A Hierarchical Graph-Based Terrain-Aware Autonomous Navigation Approach for Complementary Multimodal Ground-Aerial Exploration
Akash Patel, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos +4
Autonomous navigation in unknown environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics, particularly in coordinating ground and aerial robots to maximize exploration efficiency. This…
Collision-free landing of multiple UAVs on moving ground vehicles using time-varying control barrier functions
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Akshit Saradagi, Sumeet Satpute +1
In this article, we present a centralized approach for the control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for landing on moving unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) using control b…