7 papers
Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming
Valerio Brunacci, Davide Plozza, Alessio De Angelis +2
Persistent air ground robot teams require nano UAVs that can leave a mobile UGV, perform short scouting or inspection tasks, and reliably return to a compact landing interface. Thi…
A Non-Invasive Path to Animal Welfare: Contactless Vital Signs and Activity Monitoring of In-Vivo Rodents Using a mm-Wave FMCW Radar
Tommaso Polonelli, Manuel Glahn, Stefano Kron +3
Monitoring physiological and behavioral parameters of laboratory rodents is fundamental for biomedical research, yet conventional techniques often rely on invasive sensors or frequ…
Evaluating Electric Charge Variation Sensors for Camera-free Eye Tracking on Smart Glasses
Alan Magdaleno, Pietro Bonazzi, Tommaso Polonelli +1
Contactless Electrooculography (EOC) using electric charge variation (QVar) sensing has recently emerged as a promising eye-tracking technique for wearable devices. QVar enables lo…
EdgeCodec: Onboard Lightweight High Fidelity Neural Compressor with Residual Vector Quantization
Benjamin Hodo, Tommaso Polonelli, Amirhossein Moallemi +2
We present EdgeCodec, an end-to-end neural compressor for barometric data collected from wind turbine blades. EdgeCodec leverages a heavily asymmetric autoencoder architecture, tra…
Fully Onboard SLAM for Distributed Mapping with a Swarm of Nano-Drones
Carl Friess, Vlad Niculescu, Tommaso Polonelli +2
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation wit…
NanoSLAM: Enabling Fully Onboard SLAM for Tiny Robots
Vlad Niculescu, Tommaso Polonelli, Michele Magno +1
Perceiving and mapping the surroundings are essential for enabling autonomous navigation in any robotic platform. The algorithm class that enables accurate mapping while correcting…