This work aims to establish a heterogeneous air-ground multi-robot system consisting of a vision-guided quadrotor and a mobile ground robot in order to study various aspects of a flying system. The substantial contributions of this work are a novel system configuration, significant improvements in quadrotor pose/motion estimation in terms of high accuracy and high sample rate, enhanced control performance in relation to effectiveness and integrity, as well as advanced exploration in insect-inspired flight control. The performance of the autonomous quadrotor is extensively evaluated in simulations and real-time experiments. The contributions significantly advance the state of the art in motion estimation and control of a vision-guided autonomous flying system and serve as a signpost for future research.
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This work aims to establish a heterogeneous air-ground multi-robot system consisting of a vision-guided quadrotor and a mobile ground robot in order to study various aspects of a flying system. The substantial contributions of this work are a novel system configuration, significant improvements in quadrotor pose/motion estimation in terms of high accuracy and high sample rate, enhanced control performance in relation to effectiveness and integrity, as well as advanced exploration in insect-inspi...
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