Self-sufficiency in robotics motivates the need for continual improvement in autonomous navigation for mobile robots. Wall-following provides a simplification of 2-D navigation problems by providing a reference by which these problems are reduced to 1-D. A laser scanner for wall detection (abstracted as an active tangent/curvature sensor) is used on a kinematic unicycle robot, together with a c...

In this paper, we present the development of a visual navigation capability for small drone enabling it to autonomously approach flowers. This is very important step towards fully autonomous flower pollinating nanodrone. The developed totally and relies its on on-board color camera, complemented with one simple ToF distance sensor, detect flower. proposed solution uses DJI Tello carrying Maix B...