Authors
Gino Brunner, Bence Szebedy, Simon Tanner, Roger Wattenhofer
Publication date
2019/6/11
Conference
2019 international conference on unmanned aircraft systems (icuas)
Pages
1005-1012
Publisher
IEEE
Description
Drone delivery has been a hot topic in the industry in the past few years. However, existing approaches either focus on rural areas or rely on centralized drop-off locations from where the last mile delivery is performed. In this paper we tackle the problem of autonomous last mile delivery in urban environments using an off-the-shelf drone. We build a prototype system that is able to fly to the approximate delivery location using GPS and then find the exact drop-off location using visual navigation. The drop-off location could, e.g., be on a balcony or porch, and simply needs to be indicated by a visual marker on the wall or window. We test our system components in simulated environments, including the visual navigation and collision avoidance. Finally, we deploy our drone in a real-world environment and show how it can find the drop-off point on a balcony. To stimulate future research in this topic we open source our …
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Scholar articles
G Brunner, B Szebedy, S Tanner, R Wattenhofer - 2019 international conference on unmanned aircraft …, 2019