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Challenges and implemented technologies used in autonomous drone racing

Moon, Hyungpil
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Martinez-Carranza, Jose
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Cieslewski, Titus
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January 24, 2019
Intelligent Service Robotics

Autonomous drone racing (ADR) is a challenge for autonomous drones to navigate a cluttered indoor environment without relying on any external sensing in which all the sensing and computing must be done with onboard resources. Although no team could complete the whole racing track so far, most successful teams implemented waypoint tracking methods and robust visual recognition of the gates of distinct colors because the complete environmental information was given to participants before the events. In this paper, we introduce the purpose of ADR as a benchmark testing ground for autonomous drone technologies and analyze challenges and technologies used in the two previous ADRs held in IROS 2016 and IROS 2017. Five teams which participated in these events present their implemented technologies that cover modified ORB-SLAM, robust alignment method for waypoints deployment, sensor fusion for motion estimation, deep learning for gate detection and motion control, and stereo-vision for gate detection.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s11370-018-00271-6
Author(s)
Moon, Hyungpil
Martinez-Carranza, Jose
Cieslewski, Titus
Faessler, Matthias
Falanga, Davide
Simovic, Alessandro
Scaramuzza, Davide
Li, Shuo
Ozo, Michael
De Wagter, Christophe
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Date Issued

2019-01-24

Published in
Intelligent Service Robotics
Volume

12

Issue

2

Start page

137

End page

148

Subjects

Autonomous drone

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Drone racing

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Autonomous flight

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Autonomous navigation

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
Available on Infoscience
June 4, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/156635
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