— Autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be achieved with a reactive system which allows the robot to overcome all the unexpected changes in its environmen...
Abstract— In the following work, we develop a characterization method using miniature fiberoptic position sensors for the Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI)1 , a centimeter siz...
Erik Steltz, Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, R...
– The conceptual design of an embedded high performance opto-electronic optical flow processor is presented, which is designed for navigation applications in the field of robotic...
In 1986, Franceschini et al. built an optronic velocity sensor [11], the principle of which was based on the findings they had recently made on fly EMDs by performing electrophysio...
— An imaging sensor made of multiple light-weight non-overlapping cameras is an effective sensor for a small unmanned aerial vehicle that has strong payload limitation. This pape...