We present a quad-rotor micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that is capable to fly and navigate autonomously in an unknown environment. The only sensory input used by the MAV are the imagery from two cameras in a stereo configuration, and data from an inertial measurement unit. We apply a fast sparse stereo matching algorithm in combination with a visual odometry method based on PTAM to estimate the cur...

Backscatter communication which enables wireless-powered backscatter devices (BDs) to transmit information by reflecting incident signals, is an energy- and cost-efficient technology for Internet-of-Things. This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted network (UBCN) consisting of multiple BDs carrier emitters (CEs) on the ground as well a UAV. A communicate-while-fly scheme first...

Hover performance of a twin-rotor test model in terms of rotor overlap sweep, blade collective pitch, and blade tip speedwasexaminedexperimentally.The experimental setup consisted of two three-bladed rotors (tandem rotor configuration) with a diameter of1,220 mm and constant chord of 38 mm, giving a blade aspect ratio of 16.05. The blades were of a rectangular planform with NACA 0012 cross-sect...

Autonomous hover control of a low-cost Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) is considered in this paper. To avoid the long-term drift during hover, the ‘snapshot’ idea is practiced, where an image of the ground under the MAV is stored as the reference image, and the following images are directly compared with this reference image for estimating horizontal position. For hover control, the measured position i...

Purpose To quantify the reduction of relative displacement between the implanted intracavitary applicator and the patient bony anatomy, due to the use of a hover transport system during the patient transports between the imaging table and the treatment table. Material and methods The displacement of the applicator inside the patient was measured by comparing the distance between the tip of th...

This paper details the developments to date of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) based on a standard size 60 model helicopter. The design goal is to have the helicopter achieve stable hover with the aid of an INS and stereo vision. The focus of this paper is on the development of an artificial neural network (ANN) that makes use of only the INS data to generate hover commands, which are used to dir...

Passive geolocation by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) covers a wide range of military and civilian applications including rescue, wild life tracking electronic warfare. The sensor-target geometry is known to significantly affect the localization precision. existing optimal sensor placement strategies mainly work on cases without any constraints locations. However, UAVs cannot fly/hove...

Recent developments in the area of stereoscopic displays and tracking technologies have paved the way to combine touch interaction on interactive surfaces with spatial interaction above the surface of a stereoscopic display. This holistic design space supports novel affordances and user experiences during touch interaction, but also induce challenges to the interaction design. In this paper we ...