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Free as a Bird: Event-Based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight
Author/s | Rodríguez-Gómez, J.P.
Tapia López, Raúl ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guzmán García, María del Mar Martínez de Dios, José Ramiro ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ollero Baturone, Aníbal ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática |
Publication Date | 2022-04 |
Deposit Date | 2022-07-08 |
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Abstract | Autonomous flight of flapping-wing robots is a major challenge for robot perception. Most of the previous sense-and-avoid works have studied the problem of obstacle avoidance for flapping-wing robots considering only static ... Autonomous flight of flapping-wing robots is a major challenge for robot perception. Most of the previous sense-and-avoid works have studied the problem of obstacle avoidance for flapping-wing robots considering only static obstacles. This letter presents a fully onboard dynamic sense-and-avoid scheme for large-scale ornithopters using event cameras. These sensors trigger pixel information due to changes of illumination in the scene such as those produced by dynamic objects. The method performs event-by-event processing in low-cost hardware such as those onboard small aerial vehicles. The proposed scheme detects obstacles and evaluates possible collisions with the robot body. The onboard controller actuates over the horizontal and vertical tail deflections to execute the avoidance maneuver. The scheme is validated in both indoor and outdoor scenarios using obstacles of different shapes and sizes. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first event-based method for dynamic obstacle avoidance in a flapping-wing robot. |
Project ID. | 788247
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Citation | Rodríguez-Gómez, J.P., Tapia López, R., Guzmán García, M.d.M., Martínez-de Dios, J.R. y Ollero Baturone, A. (2022). Free as a Bird: Event-Based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (2), 5413-5420. |
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