Fast, autonomous flight in GPS-denied and cluttered environments

Kartik Mohta, Michael Watterson, Yash Mulgaonkar, Sikang Liu, Chao Qu, Anurag Makineni, Kelsey Saulnier, Ke Sun, Alex Zihao Zhu, Jeffrey A. Delmerico, Konstantinos Karydis, Nikolay Atanasov, Giuseppe Loianno, Davide Scaramuzza, Kostas Daniilidis, Camillo Jose Taylor, Vijay Kumar

Abstract: One of the most challenging tasks for a flying robot is to autonomously navigate between target locations quickly and reliably while avoiding obstacles in its path, and with little to no a priori kno...