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    A System for Autonomous Landing of a UAV on a Moving Vehicle

    This paper describes the approach employed to implement the autonomous landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) upon a moving ground vehicle. We consider an application scenario in which a target, made of a...

    Sebastiano Battiato, Luciano Cantelli in Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2017… (2017)

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    Measurement and Exploration in Volcanic Environments

    Volcanic environments are a challenging application for UAVs. About 10 % of the world's population lives in areas directly threatened by volcanoes, and scientists are continuously asked to perform measurements...

    Carmelo Donato Melita, Domenico Longo in Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2015)

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    Article

    Automatic Tuning Architecture for the Navigation Control Loops of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    One of the most time consuming phases in the development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is the tuning of the control algorithms. In this paper the hardware and software suite developed for the self-tuning of th...

    Antonino Catena, Carmelo Donato Melita in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2014)

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    Article

    A Simulation Environment for an Augmented Global Navigation Satellite System Assisted Autonomous Robotic Lawn-Mower

    This paper presents the software architecture that was developed to evaluate the performance of different Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) and Satellite/Ground-Based Augmentation Systems for the lo...

    Carmelo Donato Melita, Giovanni Muscato in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2013)