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Boltzmannstrasse 3
85748 Garching info@vision.in.tum.de

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04.03.2024

We have twelve papers accepted to CVPR 2024. Check our publication page for more details.

18.07.2023

We have four papers accepted to ICCV 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

02.03.2023

CVPR 2023

We have six papers accepted to CVPR 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

15.10.2022

NeurIPS 2022

We have two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022. Check out our publication page for more details.

15.10.2022

WACV 2023

We have two papers accepted at WACV 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

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Nanocopter

Contact: Jakob Engel, Jörg Stückler

In this research project we will explore visual navigation methods for Nanocopters, extremely small Quadrocopter with a flight-weight of less than 50g. Possible future applications are e.g. exploration of a collapsed building after a natural desaster, surveillance and inspection of difficult-to-reach areas, or simply as personal flying camera, to take pictures from a fully new perspective. In contrast to regular quadrocopters with a flight-weight of above 500g, nanocopters can safely be used indoors and close to people, can fly through even smaller gaps or windows, and - acting fully atonomously - can easily be deployed as a swarm.

The extraoridnarily small payload of such platforms poses new challenges, in particular as it imposes heavy constraints on the on-board sensor capabilities. Monocular nano-cameras - being lightweight, cheap and small, while at the same time providing rich information about the environment - are an ideal choice. In this project we will focus on off-board computations, i.e., perform costly computations on a ground-based laptop.

The aim of this research project is two-fold:

  • Develop suitable hardware prototypes (nanocopter + nano-camera), and corresponding software interfaces to facilitate visual navigation with off-board computation
  • Adapt and develop monocular visual navigation / SLAM methods suited for the high agility and comparatively low sensor quality of such a system.

This project is embedded in and supported by the Software Campus.

Code

We provide some open-source code for the Crazyflie; for more details see the corresponding paper (see below). The Code is on GitHub

Publications


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Conference and Workshop Papers
2014
[]Visual-Inertial Navigation for a Camera-Equipped 25g Nano-Quadrotor (O. Dunkley, J. Engel, J. Sturm and D. Cremers), In IROS2014 Aerial Open Source Robotics Workshop, 2014.  [bibtex] [pdf] [video]
Other Publications
2014
[]Visual Inertial Control of a Nano-Quadrotor (OMW Dunkley), Master's thesis, Technical University Munich, 2014.  [bibtex] [pdf]
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Informatik IX
Computer Vision Group

Boltzmannstrasse 3
85748 Garching info@vision.in.tum.de

Follow us on:

News

04.03.2024

We have twelve papers accepted to CVPR 2024. Check our publication page for more details.

18.07.2023

We have four papers accepted to ICCV 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

02.03.2023

CVPR 2023

We have six papers accepted to CVPR 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

15.10.2022

NeurIPS 2022

We have two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022. Check out our publication page for more details.

15.10.2022

WACV 2023

We have two papers accepted at WACV 2023. Check out our publication page for more details.

More