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Title:	Forest Inventorying with Micro Aerial vehicles for autonomous Tree-parameter Estimation
Description:	We will pursue a concentrated research effort to enable research platform prototype consisting of one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigating autonomously through managed mature forest providing sufficiently dense visual data for accurate 3D reconstruction and subsequent autonomous extraction of ecological data from objects of interest. The ecological data includes the estimation of the position of the trees, the diameter as breast height, the stem shape, and coverage of herb layer. The project will yield new innovative algorithms for GPS independent, vision based autonomous UAV navigation, including self-healing state estimation, vision based obstacle avoidance, and adaptive path planning. In addition, novel 3D reconstruction algorithms will enable on-site extraction of ecological forest parameters in unprecedented precision and efficiency in both time and cost.
Keywords:	Forest inventorying, 3D reconstruction, path planning, state estimation, UAV navigation

Short title:	Forest-IMate
Period:	01.09.2016 - 31.03.2020
Contact e-mail:	stephan.weiss@aau.at
Homepage:	https://forest.aau.at

Employees

Role

Time period

(internal)

Project leader

01.09.2016 - 31.03.2020

(internal)

PhD student

01.09.2016 - 30.11.2018

(internal)

Technician

01.09.2016 - 30.11.2018

(internal)

Administrator

01.09.2016 - 30.11.2018

Assignment

Organisational unit

Fakultät für Technische Wissenschaften

Categorisation

Project type	Research funding (on request / by call for proposals)
Funding type	§27
Research type	Applied research
Subject areas	202037 - Signal processing 102003 - Image processing 202035 - Robotics
Research Cluster	Self-organizing systems
Gender aspects	Genderrelevance not selected
Project focus	Science to Science (Quality indicator: n.a.) Classification raster of the assigned organisational units: Institut für Intelligente Systemtechnologien
working groups	No working group selected

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Publications	Autonomous Drone Navigator for 3D Reconstruction of Forests Autonomous Drone Navigator for 3D Reconstruction of Forests (2019) R. Muzaffar, A. Hardt-Stremayr, S. Hayat, A. Vogell, E. Yanmaz Challenges in Vision-based Drones Navigation No Publisher selected to publication Visual-Inertial On-Board Throw-and-Go Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles Visual-Inertial On-Board Throw-and-Go Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles (2019) M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, S. Weiss Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) No Publisher selected to publication Metrics for Real-Time Mono-VSLAM Evaluation Including IMU Induced Drift with Application to UAV Flight Metrics for Real-Time Mono-VSLAM Evaluation Including IMU Induced Drift with Application to UAV Flight (2018) A. Hardt-Stremayr, M. Schörghuber, S. Weiss, M. Humenberger ECCV 2018 Workshops No Publisher selected to publication Live multicast video streaming from drones: an experimental study Live multicast video streaming from drones: an experimental study (2020) R. Muzaffar, E. Yanmaz, C. Raffelsberger, C. Bettstetter, A. Cavallaro Autonomous Robots No Publisher selected to publication
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