Efficient Visual Ego-Motion Estimation for Agile Flying Robots

Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have shown significant potential in modern society. The development in robotics and automation is changing the roles of MAVs from remotely controlled machines requiring human pilots to autonomous and intelligent robots. There is an increasing number of autonomous MAVs involved in outdoor operations. In contrast, the...

EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing

This paper presents EMGSense, a low-effort self-supervised domain adaptation framework for sensing applications based on Electromyography (EMG). EMGSense addresses one of the fundamental challenges in EMG cross-user sensing—the significant performance degradation caused by time-varying biological heterogeneity—in a low-effort (data-efficient and...

Nano Quadcopter Obstacle Avoidance with a Lightweight Monocular Depth Network

In this paper, we propose an obstacle avoidance solution for a 34-gram quadcopter equipped with a monocular camera. The perception of obstacles is tackled by a lightweight convolutional neural network predicting a dense depth map from a captured grey-scale image. The depth network performs self-supervised learning and thus requires no ground...