Search Results - "De Croon, Guido C. H. E."

Unsupervised Learning of a Hierarchical Spiking Neural Network for Optical Flow Estimation: From Events to Global Motion Perception by Paredes-Valles, Federico, Scheper, Kirk Yannick Willehm, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…The combination of spiking neural networks and event-based vision sensors holds the potential of highly efficient and high-bandwidth optical flow estimation…”
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A tailless aerial robotic flapper reveals that flies use torque coupling in rapid banked turns by Karásek, Matěj, Muijres, Florian T, De Wagter, Christophe, Remes, Bart D W, de Croon, Guido C H E

“…Insects are among the most agile natural flyers. Hypotheses on their flight control cannot always be validated by experiments with animals or tethered robots…”
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A Survey on Swarming With Micro Air Vehicles: Fundamental Challenges and Constraints by Coppola, Mario, McGuire, Kimberly N, De Wagter, Christophe, de Croon, Guido C H E

“…This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real…”
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Back to Event Basics: Self-Supervised Learning of Image Reconstruction for Event Cameras via Photometric Constancy by Paredes-Valles, Federico, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…Event cameras are novel vision sensors that sample, in an asynchronous fashion, brightness increments with low latency and high temporal resolution. The…”
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On-board communication-based relative localization for collision avoidance in Micro Air Vehicle teams by Coppola, Mario, McGuire, Kimberly N., Scheper, Kirk Y. W., de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…To avoid collisions, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) flying in teams require estimates of their relative locations, preferably with minimal mass and processing…”
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How Do Neural Networks Estimate Optical Flow? A Neuropsychology-Inspired Study by de Jong, David B., Paredes-Valles, Federico, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…End-to-end trained convolutional neural networks have led to a breakthrough in optical flow estimation. The most recent advances focus on improving the optical…”
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Visual model‐predictive localization for computationally efficient autonomous racing of a 72‐g drone by Li, Shuo, Horst, Erik, Duernay, Philipp, De Wagter, Christophe, Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…Drone racing is becoming a popular e‐sport all over the world, and beating the best human drone race pilots has quickly become a new major challenge for…”
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Monocular distance estimation with optical flow maneuvers and efference copies: a stability-based strategy by de Croon, Guido C H E

“…The visual cue of optical flow plays an important role in the navigation of flying insects, and is increasingly studied for use by small flying robots as well…”
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Real-Time Nonlinear Control Allocation Framework for Vehicles with Highly Nonlinear Effectors Subject to Saturation by Mancinelli, Alessandro, Remes, Bart D. W., De Croon, Guido C. H. E., Smeur, Ewoud J. J.

“…Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV are vehicles capable of take-off and landing vertically like helicopters while maintaining the long-range efficiency of…”
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Autonomous Flying With Neuromorphic Sensing by Parlevliet, Patricia P, Kanaev, Andrey, Hung, Chou P, Schweiger, Andreas, Gregory, Frederick D, Benosman, Ryad, de Croon, Guido C H E, Gutfreund, Yoram, Lo, Chung-Chuan, Moss, Cynthia F

“…Autonomous flight for large aircraft appears to be within our reach. However, launching autonomous systems for everyday missions still requires an immense…”
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Optical flow-based control for micro air vehicles: an efficient data-driven incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion approach by Ho, Hann Woei, Zhou, Ye, Feng, Yiting, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…This paper proposes an innovative approach for optical flow-based control of micro air vehicles (MAVs), addressing challenges inherent in the nonlinearity of…”
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Drone-racing champions outpaced by AI by de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…An autonomous drone has competed against human drone-racing champions — and won. The victory can be attributed to savvy engineering and a type of artificial…”
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Accommodating unobservability to control flight attitude with optic flow by de Croon, Guido C. H. E., Dupeyroux, Julien J. G., De Wagter, Christophe, Chatterjee, Abhishek, Olejnik, Diana A., Ruffier, Franck

“…Attitude control is an essential flight capability. Whereas flying robots commonly rely on accelerometers 1 for estimating attitude, flying insects lack an…”
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Online trajectory planning and control of a MAV payload system in dynamic environments by Potdar, Nikhil D., de Croon, Guido C. H. E., Alonso-Mora, Javier

“…Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) can be used for aerial transportation in remote and urban spaces where portability can be exploited to reach previously…”
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On-board range-based relative localization for micro air vehicles in indoor leader–follower flight by van der Helm, Steven, Coppola, Mario, McGuire, Kimberly N., de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…We present a range-based solution for indoor relative localization by micro air vehicles (MAVs), achieving sufficient accuracy for leader–follower flight…”
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Obstacle Avoidance Strategy using Onboard Stereo Vision on a Flapping Wing MAV by Tijmons, Sjoerd, de Croon, Guido C. H. E., Remes, Bart D. W., De Wagter, Christophe, Mulder, Max

“…The development of autonomous lightweight MAVs, capable of navigating in unknown indoor environments, is one of the major challenges in robotics. The…”
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Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments by Duisterhof, Bardienus P., Li, Shushuai, Burgues, Javier, Reddi, Vijay Janapa, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…Nano quadcopters are ideal for gas source localization (GSL) as they are safe, agile and inexpensive. However, their extremely restricted sensors and…”
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Provable self-organizing pattern formation by a swarm of robots with limited knowledge by Coppola, Mario, Guo, Jian, Gill, Eberhard, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…In this paper we present a procedure to automatically design and verify the local behavior of robots with highly limited cognition. All robots are: anonymous,…”
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Three-dimensional relative localization and synchronized movement with wireless ranging by Pfeiffer, Sven, Munaro, Veronica, Li, Shushuai, Rizzo, Alessandro, de Croon, Guido C. H. E.

“…Relative localization is a key capability for autonomous robot swarms, and it is a substantial challenge, especially for small flying robots, as they are…”
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AvoidBench: A high-fidelity vision-based obstacle avoidance benchmarking suite for multi-rotors by Yu, Hang, de Croon, Guido C. H. E, De Wagter, Christophe

“…Obstacle avoidance is an essential topic in the field of autonomous drone research. When choosing an avoidance algorithm, many different options are available,…”
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