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The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Shape and Motion Planning
Mihir Kulkarni, Huan Nguyen, Kostas Alexis
This paper presents the design concept, modeling and motion planning solution for the aerial robotic chain. This design represents a configurable robotic system of systems, consist…
Are State-of-the-art Visual Place Recognition Techniques any Good for Aerial Robotics?
Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan +3
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years. However, these evaluati…
Vision-Depth Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments
Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis
This paper proposes a method for tight fusion of visual, depth and inertial data in order to extend robotic capabilities for navigation in GPS-denied, poorly illuminated, and textu…
Visual-Thermal Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments
Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis
With an ever-widening domain of aerial robotic applications, including many mission critical tasks such as disaster response operations, search and rescue missions and infrastructu…
Keyframe-based Direct Thermal-Inertial Odometry
Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis
This paper proposes an approach for fusing direct radiometric data from a thermal camera with inertial measurements to extend the robotic capabilities of aerial robots for navigati…
Marker based Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots in Obscurant Filled Environments
Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis
For robotic inspection tasks in known environments fiducial markers provide a reliable and low-cost solution for robot localization. However, detection of such markers relies on th…