In this paper, a fully-autonomous quadrotor aerial robot for solving the different missions proposed in the 2016 International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) Indoor Competition is presented. The missions proposed in the IMA...
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(纸本)9781509044962
In this paper, a fully-autonomous quadrotor aerial robot for solving the different missions proposed in the 2016 International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) Indoor Competition is presented. The missions proposed in the IMAV 2016 competition involve the execution of high-level missions such as entering and exiting a building, exploring an unknown indoor environment, recognizing and interacting with objects, landing autonomously on a moving platform, etc. For solving the aforementioned missions, a fully-autonomous quadrotor aerial robot has been designed, based on a complete hardware configuration and a versatile software architecture, which allows the aerial robot to complete all the missions in a fully autonomous and consecutive manner. A thorough evaluation of the proposed system has been carried out in both simulated flights, using the Gazebo simulator in combination with PX4 Software-In-The-Loop, and real flights, demonstrating the appropriate capabilities of the proposed system for performing high-level missions and its flexibility for being adapted to a wide variety of applications.
Personal drones are becoming part of every day life. To fully integrate them into society, it is crucial to design safe and intuitive ways to interact with these aerial systems. The recent advances on User-Centered De...
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Validation metrics are key for tracking scientific progress and bridging the current chasm between artificial intelligence (AI) research and its translation into practice. However, increasing evidence shows that parti...
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To simplify the usage of the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), extending their use to a great number of applications, fully autonomous operation is needed. There are many open-source architecture frameworks for UAS that ...
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To simplify the usage of the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), extending their use to a great number of applications, fully autonomous operation is needed. There are many open-source architecture frameworks for UAS that ...
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(纸本)9781467393355
To simplify the usage of the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), extending their use to a great number of applications, fully autonomous operation is needed. There are many open-source architecture frameworks for UAS that claim the autonomous operation of UAS, but they still have two main open issues: (1) level of autonomy, being in most of the cases limited and (2) versatility, being most of them designed specifically for some applications or aerial platforms. As a response to these needs and issues, this paper presents Aerostack, a system architecture and open-source multi-purpose software framework for autonomous multi-UAS operation. To provide higher degrees of autonomy, Aerostack's system architecture integrates state of the art concepts of intelligent, cognitive and social robotics, based on five layers: reactive, executive, deliberative, reflective, and social. To be a highly versatile practical solution, Aerostack's open-source software framework includes the main components to execute the architecture for fully autonomous missions of swarms of UAS; a collection of ready-to-use and flight proven modular components that can be reused by the users and developers; and compatibility with five well known aerial platforms, as well as a high number of sensors. Aerostack has been validated during three years by its successful use on many research projects, international competitions and exhibitions. To corroborate this fact, this paper also presents Aerostack carrying out a fictional fully autonomous indoors search and rescue mission.
In this paper a scalable and flexible Architecture for real-time mission planning and dynamic agent-to-task assignment for a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is presented. The proposed mission planning architec...
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(纸本)9781467393355
In this paper a scalable and flexible Architecture for real-time mission planning and dynamic agent-to-task assignment for a swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is presented. The proposed mission planning architecture consists of a Global Mission Planner (GMP) which is responsible of assigning and monitoring different high-level missions through an Agent Mission Planner (AMP), which is in charge of providing and monitoring each task of the mission to each UAV in the swarm. The objective of the proposed architecture is to carry out high-level missions such as autonomous multi-agent exploration, automatic target detection and recognition, search and rescue, and other different missions with the ability of dynamically re-adapt the mission in real-time. The proposed architecture has been evaluated in simulation and real indoor flights demonstrating its robustness in different scenarios and its flexibility for real-time mission re-planning and dynamic agent-to-task assignment.
In this paper we propose a new vision-based obstacle avoidance strategy using the Underwater Dark Channel Prior (UDCP) that can be applied to any Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) equipped with a simple monocular came...
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When a robotic manipulator executes a task in restricted and unknown environments, it is necessary to implement a position/force control in free space and constrained space. In classic controllers, position/force cont...
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Personal drones are becoming part of every day life. To fully integrate them into society, it is crucial to design safe and intuitive ways to interact with these aerial systems. The recent advances on User-Centered De...
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(纸本)9781467393355
Personal drones are becoming part of every day life. To fully integrate them into society, it is crucial to design safe and intuitive ways to interact with these aerial systems. The recent advances on User-Centered Design (UCD) applied to Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) intend to make use of human innate features, such as speech, gestures and vision to interact with technology in the way humans would with one another. In this paper, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and several NUI methods are studied and implemented, along with computervision techniques, in a single software framework for aerial robotics called Aerostack which allows for intuitive and natural human-quadrotor interaction in indoor GPS-denied environments. These strategies include speech, body position, hand gesture and visual marker interactions used to directly command tasks to the drone. The NUIs presented are based on devices like the Leap Motion Controller, microphones and small size monocular on-board cameras which are unnoticeable to the user. Thanks to this UCD perspective, the users can choose the most intuitive and effective type of interaction for their application. Additionally, the strategies proposed allow for multi-modal interaction between multiple users and the drone by being able to integrate several of these interfaces in one single application as is shown in various real flight experiments performed with non-expert users.
vision-based sky segmentation and horizon line detection can be extremely useful to perform important tasks onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as pose estimation and collision avoidance. Most of the existin...
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vision-based sky segmentation and horizon line detection can be extremely useful to perform important tasks onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), such as pose estimation and collision avoidance. Most of the existing vision-based solutions use traditional image processing methods to identify the horizon line. This results in good overall accuracy and fast computation times. However, difficult environmental conditions such as a foggy or cloudy skies hinder correct sky segmentation. This paper proposes a solution for sky segmentation in RGB images using a supervised Machine Learning approach by first splitting the image into fixed-size patches, extracting and classifying color descriptors for each patch and performing a final post-processing stage to improve segmentation quality. A method for automatic horizon line detection is also proposed. The performance of our approach was evaluated on flight images captured onboard UAVs, achieving performance accuracies above 93% at real-time frame rates.
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