no code implementations • 15 Jan 2020 • Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin R. Murphy
In this paper, an autonomous tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is developed into a visual assistant in a marsupial co-robots team, collaborating with a tele-operated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for robot operations in unstructured or confined environments.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2019 • Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin R. Murphy
This paper develops an autonomous tethered aerial visual assistant for robot operations in unstructured or confined environments.
Robotics
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2019 • Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin Murphy
Without manual assignment of the negative impact to the planner caused by risk, this planner takes in a pre-established viewpoint quality map and plans target location and path leading to it simultaneously, in order to maximize overall reward along the entire path while minimizing risk.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2017 • Haresh Karnan, Aritra Biswas, Pranav Vaidik Dhulipala, Jan Dufek, Robin Murphy
The motor schema proposed, uses the USVs coordinates from the visual localization subsystem to control the UAVs camera movements and track the USV with minimal camera movements such that the USV is always in the cameras field of view.