This paper is about vision-based autonomous flight of MAVs at night. Despite it being dark almost half of the time, most of the work to date has addressed only daytime operations. Enabling autonomous night-time operation of MAVs with low SWaP on-board sensing capabilities is still an open problem in current robotics research. In this paper, we take a step in this direction and introduce a robust vision-based perception system using thermal-infrared cameras. We present this in the context of safe autonomous landing on rooftop-like structures, and demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed system through extensive real-world flight experiments in outdoor environments at night.
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Daftry, S., Das, M., Delaune, J., Sorice, C., Hewitt, R., Reddy, S., … Matthies, L. (2020). Robust Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Landing for MAVs at Night. In Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (Vol. 11, pp. 232–242). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33950-0_21
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