Search Results - "Delaune, Jeff"

Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry: Scale Observability Without Excitation by Delaune, Jeff, Bayard, David S., Brockers, Roland

“…Traveling at constant velocity is the most efficient trajectory for most robotics applications. Unfortunately without accelerometer excitation, monocular…”
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The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios by Brommer, Christian, Fornasier, Alessandro, Scheiber, Martin, Delaune, Jeff, Brockers, Roland, Steinbrener, Jan, Weiss, Stephan

“…For real-world applications, autonomous mobile robotic platforms must be capable of navigating safely in a multitude of different and dynamic environments with…”
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Exploring Event Camera-Based Odometry for Planetary Robots by Mahlknecht, Florian, Gehrig, Daniel, Nash, Jeremy, Rockenbauer, Friedrich M., Morrell, Benjamin, Delaune, Jeff, Scaramuzza, Davide

“…Due to their resilience to motion blur and high robustness in low-light and high dynamic range conditions, event cameras are poised to become enabling sensors…”
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Data-Efficient Collaborative Decentralized Thermal-Inertial Odometry by Polizzi, Vincenzo, Hewitt, Robert, Hidalgo-Carrio, Javier, Delaune, Jeff, Scaramuzza, Davide

“…We propose a system solution to achieve data-efficient, decentralized state estimation for a team of flying robots using thermal images and inertial…”
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Thermal-Inertial Odometry for Autonomous Flight Throughout the Night by Delaune, Jeff, Hewitt, Robert, Lytle, Laura, Sorice, Cristina, Thakker, Rohan, Matthies, Larry

“…Thermal cameras can enable autonomous flight at night without GPS. However, image-based navigation in the thermal infrared spectrum has been researched…”
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Globally stable velocity estimation using normalized velocity measurement by Bjørne, Elias, Brekke, Edmund F, Bryne, Torleiv H, Delaune, Jeff, Johansen, Tor Arne

“…The problem of estimating velocity from a monocular camera and calibrated inertial measurement unit (IMU) measurements is revisited. For the presented setup,…”
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Dense 3D-Reconstruction from Monocular Image Sequences for Computationally Constrained UAS by Domnik, Matthias, Proenca, Pedro, Delaune, Jeff, Thiem, Jorg, Brockers, Roland

“…The ability to find safe landing sites over complex 3D terrain is an essential safety feature for fully autonomous small unmanned aerial systems (UAS), which…”
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Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft by Schoppmann, Pascal, Proenca, Pedro F., Delaune, Jeff, Pantic, Michael, Hinzmann, Timo, Matthies, Larry, Siegwart, Roland, Brockers, Roland

“…In this paper, we propose a resource-efficient approach to provide an autonomous UAV with an on-board perception method to detect safe, hazard-free landing…”
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On-board Absolute Localization Based on Orbital Imagery for a Future Mars Science Helicopter by Brockers, Roland, Proenca, Pedro, Delaune, Jeff, Todd, Jessica, Matthies, Larry, Tzanetos, Theodore, Balaram, J. Bob

“…Future Mars Rotorcraft require advanced navigation capabilities to enable all terrain access over long distance flights that are executed fully autonomously. A…”
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Visual-Inertial On-Board Throw-and-Go Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles by Scheiber, Martin, Delaune, Jeff, Brockers, Roland, Weiss, Stephan

“…We propose an approach to the throw-and-go (TnG) problem for micro air vehicles (MAVs) using visual and inertial sensors. The key challenge is the fast…”
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Autonomous Safe Landing Site Detection for a Future Mars Science Helicopter by Brockers, Roland, Delaune, Jeff, Proenca, Pedro, Schoppmann, Pascal, Domnik, Matthias, Kubiak, Gerik, Tzanetos, Theodore

“…Future Mars Rotorcrafts require advanced navigation capabilities to enable all terrain access for science investigations with long distance flights that are…”
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Study of Rotor-Jetpack-Wind Aerodynamic Interaction for Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery on Mars by Veismann, Marcel, Raffel, Jan, Leipold, Malicia, Wanner, Julius, Tosi, L. Phillipe, Izraelevitz, Jacob, Devost, Matthew, Young, Larry, Touma, Thomas, Shah, Parthiv, Weiss, Adam, Reveles, Nicolas, Ostoich, Chris, Raffel, Markus, Burdick, Joel, Gharib, Morteza, Delaune, Jeff

“…Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture for enabling future Martian helicopter-only missions (e.g., Mars…”
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Multi-Agent Autonomy for Space Exploration on the CADRE Lunar Technology Demonstration by de la Croix, Jean-Pierre, Rossi, Federico, Brockers, Roland, Aguilar, Dustin, Albee, Keenan, Boroson, Elizabeth, Cauligi, Abhishek, Delaune, Jeff, Hewitt, Robert, Kogan, Dima, Lim, Grace, Morrell, Benjamin, Nakka, Yashwanth, Nguyen, Viet, Proenca, Pedro, Rabideau, Gregg, Russino, Joseph, da Silva, Maira Saboia, Zohar, Guy, Comandur, Subha

“…CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) is a lunar technology demonstration mission of multi-agent autonomy on a team of three rovers…”
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Future of Mars Rotorcraft - Mars Science Helicopter by Tzanetos, Theodore, Bapst, Jonathan, Kubiak, Gerik, Tosi, Luis Phillipe, Sirlin, Sam, Brockers, Roland, Delaune, Jeff, Grip, Havard Fjaer, Matthies, Larry, Balaram, J., Withrow-Maser, Shannah, Johnson, Wayne, Young, Larry, Pipenberg, Benjamin

“…With Ingenuity's successful technology demonstration flights, NASA has unlocked a new dimension of mobility, exploration, and science for Mars. Just as…”
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Integrated Simulation and State Estimation for Precision Landing on Titan by Schutte, Aaron, Delaune, Jeff, Skylanskiy, Evgeniy, Hewitt, Robert, Daftry, Shreyansh, Quadrelli, Marco B., Matthies, Larry

“…This paper reports on a study of the application of a ram-air parafoil to Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) on Titan. A comprehensive simulation was…”
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Terrain Relative Navigation for Guided Descent on Titan by Matthies, Larry, Daftry, Shreyansh, Rothrock, Brandon, Davis, Anthony, Hewitt, Robert, Sklyanskiy, Evgeniy, Delaune, Jeff, Schutte, Aaron, Quadrelli, Marco, Malaska, Michael, Yurtsever, Joshua

“…Titan's dense atmosphere, low gravity, and high winds at high altitudes create descent times of >90 minutes with standard entry/descent/landing (EDL)…”
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Extended Navigation Capabilities for a Future Mars Science Helicopter Concept by Delaune, Jeff, Brockers, Roland, Bayard, David S., Dor, Harel, Hewitt, Robert, Sawoniewicz, Jacek, Kubiak, Gerik, Tzanetos, Theodore, Matthies, Larry, Balaram, J.

“…This paper introduces an autonomous navigation system suitable for supporting a future Mars Science Helicopter concept. This mission concept requires low-drift…”
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Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery at Mars Using a Jetpack by Delaune, Jeff, Izraelevitz, Jacob, Sirlin, Samuel, Sternberg, David, Giersch, Louis, Tosi, L. Phillipe, Skliyanskiy, Evgeniy, Young, Larry, Mischna, Michael, Withrow-Maser, Shannah, Mueller, Juergen, Bowman, Joshua, Wallace, Mark S, Grip, Havard F., Matthies, Larry, Johnson, Wayne, Keennon, Matthew, Pipenberg, Benjamin, Patel, Harsh, Lim, Christopher, Schutte, Aaron, Veismann, Marcel, Cummings, Haley, Conley, Sarah, Bapst, Jonathan, Tzanetos, Theodore, Brockers, Roland, Jain, Abhinandan, Bayard, David, Chmielewski, Art, Toupet, Olivier, Burdick, Joel, Gharib, Morteza, Balaram, J.

“…Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture to enable in situ mobility for Mars science at lower cost than…”
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Structure-Invariant Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry by Alberico, Ivan, Delaune, Jeff, Cioffi, Giovanni, Scaramuzza, Davide

“…The Mars Science Helicopter (MSH) mission aims to deploy the next generation of unmanned helicopters on Mars, targeting landing sites in highly irregular…”
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Optimizing Terrain Mapping and Landing Site Detection for Autonomous UAVs by Proença, Pedro F, Delaune, Jeff, Brockers, Roland

“…The next generation of Mars rotorcrafts requires on-board autonomous hazard avoidance landing. To this end, this work proposes a system that performs…”
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