Awesome Drones

Key papers

• Ego-planner: An Esdf-free Gradient-based Local Planner For Quadrotors (2020)
  Xin Zhou, Zhepei Wang, Hongkai Ye, et al.
  19.88
• FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure And Hierarchical Planning (2020)
  Boyu Zhou, Yichen Zhang, Xinyi Chen, et al.
  18.52
• An Efficient Sampling-based Method For Online Informative Path Planning In Unknown Environments (2019)
  Lukas Schmid, Michael Pantic, Raghav Khanna, et al.
  18.37
• Learning Sampling Distributions For Robot Motion Planning (2017)
  Brian Ichter, James Harrison, Marco Pavone
  18.32
• VAD: Vectorized Scene Representation For Efficient Autonomous Driving (2023)
  Bo Jiang, Shaoyu Chen, Qing Xu, et al.
  18.06
• Potential Functions Based Sampling Heuristic For Optimal Path Planning (2017)
  Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Yasar Ayaz
  17.58
• MADER: Trajectory Planner In Multi-agent And Dynamic Environments (2020)
  Jesus Tordesillas, Jonathan P. How
  17.07
• Autonomous Drone Racing With Deep Reinforcement Learning (2021)
  Yunlong Song, Mats Steinweg, Elia Kaufmann, et al.
  16.61
• Teach-repeat-replan: A Complete And Robust System For Aggressive Flight In Complex Environments (2019)
  Fei Gao, Luqi Wang, Boyu Zhou, et al.
  16.51
• Potentially Guided Bidirectionalized RRT* For Fast Optimal Path Planning In Cluttered Environments (2018)
  Zaid Tahir, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Yasar Ayaz, et al.
  16.39
• Autonomous UAV Exploration Of Dynamic Environments Via Incremental Sampling And Probabilistic Roadmap (2020)
  Zhefan Xu, di Deng, Kenji Shimada
  16.14
• A Tree-based Next-best-trajectory Method For 3D UAV Exploration (2024)
  Björn Lindqvist, Akash Patel, Kalle Löfgren, et al.
  15.86
• Predrecon: A Prediction-boosted Planning Framework For Fast And High-quality Autonomous Aerial Reconstruction (2023)
  Chen Feng, Haojia Li, Fei Gao, et al.
  15.75
• An Efficient B-spline-based Kinodynamic Replanning Framework For Quadrotors (2019)
  Wenchao Ding, Wenliang Gao, Kaixuan Wang, et al.
  15.28
• Safe Local Exploration For Replanning In Cluttered Unknown Environments For Micro-aerial Vehicles (2017)
  Helen Oleynikova, Zachary Taylor, Roland Siegwart, et al.
  14.73
• Evdodgenet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging With Event Cameras (2019)
  Nitin J. Sanket, Chethan M. Parameshwara, Chahat Deep Singh, et al.
  14.62
• Bridging The Gap Between Safety And Real-time Performance In Receding-horizon Trajectory Design For Mobile Robots (2018)
  Shreyas Kousik, Sean Vaskov, Fan Bu, et al.
  14.58
• Large-scale Autonomous Flight With Real-time Semantic SLAM Under Dense Forest Canopy (2021)
  Xu Liu, Guilherme V. Nardari, Fernando Cladera Ojeda, et al.
  14.43
• Colreg-compliant Collision Avoidance For Unmanned Surface Vehicle Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (2020)
  Eivind Meyer, Amalie Heiberg, Adil Rasheed, et al.
  14.35
• Large-scale Exploration Of Cave Environments By Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2023)
  Pavel Petracek, Vit Kratky, Matej Petrlik, et al.
  14.06
• Learned Critical Probabilistic Roadmaps For Robotic Motion Planning (2019)
  Brian Ichter, Edward Schmerling, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, et al.
  13.74
• Neural Path Planning: Fixed Time, Near-optimal Path Generation Via Oracle Imitation (2019)
  Mayur J. Bency, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Michael C. Yip
  13.60
• Neural-swarm2: Planning And Control Of Heterogeneous Multirotor Swarms Using Learned Interactions (2020)
  Guanya Shi, Wolfgang Hönig, Xichen Shi, et al.
  13.60
• Minimum-time Quadrotor Waypoint Flight In Cluttered Environments (2022)
  Robert Penicka, Davide Scaramuzza
  13.55
• Sampling-based Incremental Information Gathering With Applications To Robotic Exploration And Environmental Monitoring (2016)
  Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Jaime Valls Miro, Gamini Dissanayake
  13.23
• Dynamic Grasping With A "soft" Drone: From Theory To Practice (2021)
  Joshua Fishman, Samuel Ubellacker, Nathan Hughes, et al.
  13.11
• Planning, Fast And Slow: A Framework For Adaptive Real-time Safe Trajectory Planning (2017)
  David Fridovich-Keil, Sylvia L. Herbert, Jaime F. Fisac, et al.
  13.05
• Sparse 3D Topological Graphs For Micro-aerial Vehicle Planning (2018)
  Helen Oleynikova, Zachary Taylor, Roland Siegwart, et al.
  12.93
• Obstacle Avoidance Strategy Using Onboard Stereo Vision On A Flapping Wing MAV (2016)
  Sjoerd Tijmons, Guido de Croon, Bart Remes, et al.
  12.93
• Off-road Autonomous Vehicles Traversability Analysis And Trajectory Planning Based On Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (2019)
  Zeyu Zhu, Nan Li, Ruoyu Sun, et al.
  12.74
• Sampling-based Optimal Kinodynamic Planning With Motion Primitives (2018)
  Basak Sakcak, Luca Bascetta, Gianni Ferretti, et al.
  12.61
• Robust And Efficient Depth-based Obstacle Avoidance For Autonomous Miniaturized Uavs (2022)
  Hanna Müller, Vlad Niculescu, Tommaso Polonelli, et al.
  12.54
• Efficient Path Planning In Narrow Passages For Robots With Ellipsoidal Components (2021)
  Sipu Ruan, Karen L. Poblete, Hongtao Wu, et al.
  12.54
• LEGO: Leveraging Experience In Roadmap Generation For Sampling-based Planning (2019)
  Rahul Kumar, Aditya Mandalika, Sanjiban Choudhury, et al.
  12.25
• SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration For Aerial Robots Using Learning To Predict Information Gain (2022)
  Yuezhan Tao, Yuwei Wu, Beiming Li, et al.
  12.17
• Visibility-aware Trajectory Optimization With Application To Aerial Tracking (2021)
  Qianhao Wang, Yuman Gao, Jialin Ji, et al.
  12.02
• Differentiable Gaussian Process Motion Planning (2019)
  Mohak Bhardwaj, Byron Boots, Mustafa Mukadam
  11.85
• Relative Transformation Estimation Based On Fusion Of Odometry And UWB Ranging Data (2022)
  Thien Hoang Nguyen, Lihua Xie
  11.76
• Eva-planner: Environmental Adaptive Quadrotor Planning (2020)
  Lun Quan, Zhiwei Zhang, Xingguang Zhong, et al.
  11.76
• V-RVO: Decentralized Multi-agent Collision Avoidance Using Voronoi Diagrams And Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles (2021)
  Senthil Hariharan Arul, Dinesh Manocha
  11.67
• Bayesian Local Sampling-based Planning (2019)
  Tin Lai, Philippe Morere, Fabio Ramos, et al.
  11.67
• Swarm Relays: Distributed Self-healing Ground-and-air Connectivity Chains (2019)
  Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, David St-Onge, Bram Adams, et al.
  11.67
• Bi-am-rrt*: A Fast And Efficient Sampling-based Motion Planning Algorithm In Dynamic Environments (2023)
  Ying Zhang, Heyong Wang, Maoliang Yin, et al.
  11.67
• Trajectory Replanning For Quadrotors Using Kinodynamic Search And Elastic Optimization (2019)
  Wenchao Ding, Wenliang Gao, Kaixuan Wang, et al.
  11.58
• Learning Extreme Hummingbird Maneuvers On Flapping Wing Robots (2019)
  Fan Fei, Zhan Tu, Jian Zhang, et al.
  11.58
• Flappy Hummingbird: An Open Source Dynamic Simulation Of Flapping Wing Robots And Animals (2019)
  Fan Fei, Zhan Tu, Yilun Yang, et al.
  11.49
• A Vision Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm For UAV Obstacle Avoidance (2021)
  Jeremy Roghair, Kyungtae Ko, Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli, et al.
  11.49
• Build Your Own Visual-inertial Drone: A Cost-effective And Open-source Autonomous Drone (2017)
  Inkyu Sa, Mina Kamel, Michael Burri, et al.
  11.49
• A Hierarchal Planning Framework For AUV Mission Management In A Spatio-temporal Varying Ocean (2016)
  Somaiyeh Mahmoud. Zadeh, Karl Sammut, David M. W Powers, et al.
  11.49
• Embodied Footprints: A Safety-guaranteed Collision Avoidance Model For Numerical Optimization-based Trajectory Planning (2023)
  Bai Li, Youmin Zhang, Tantan Zhang, et al.
  11.39
• Learning To Herd Agents Amongst Obstacles: Training Robust Shepherding Behaviors Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (2020)
  Jixuan Zhi, Jyh-Ming Lien
  11.39
• Direct NMPC For Post-stall Motion Planning With Fixed-wing Uavs (2020)
  Max Basescu, Joseph Moore
  10.97
• Bubble Explorer: Fast UAV Exploration In Large-scale And Cluttered 3d-environments Using Occlusion-free Spheres (2023)
  Benxu Tang, Yunfan Ren, Fangcheng Zhu, et al.
  10.97
• FALCON: Fast Autonomous Aerial Exploration Using Coverage Path Guidance (2024)
  Yichen Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Chen Feng, et al.
  10.85
• A Motion Planning Strategy For The Active Vision-based Mapping Of Ground-level Structures (2016)
  Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, André Phu-van Nguyen, Jerome Le Ny
  10.74
• Okayplan: Obstacle Kinematics Augmented Dynamic Real-time Path Planning Via Particle Swarm Optimization (2024)
  Jinghao Xin, Jinwoo Kim, Shengjia Chu, et al.
  10.61
• Demonstrating Agile Flight From Pixels Without State Estimation (2024)
  Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Angel Romero, et al.
  10.48
• An Opportunistic Linear-convex Algorithm For Localization In Mobile Robot Networks (2017)
  Sam Safavi, Usman Khan
  10.48
• Learning To Predict Ego-vehicle Poses For Sampling-based Nonholonomic Motion Planning (2018)
  Holger Banzhaf, Paul Sanzenbacher, Ulrich Baumann, et al.
  10.35
• Crazychoir: Flying Swarms Of Crazyflie Quadrotors In ROS 2 (2023)
  Lorenzo Pichierri, Andrea Testa, Giuseppe Notarstefano
  10.35