Insect Inspired Navigation of Micro Air Vehicles

Introduction

This project aims at developing autonomous Micro Air Vehicles capable of navigation and terrain understanding. The project is a collaboration with Aerospace Engineering , Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of Maryland and Visual Sciences Group at Australian National University.

Current focus is on the following issues

Estimating the ego-motion of Micro Air Vehicles(MAV) from a combination of visual and inertial sensors
Terrain Understanding from videos acquired from MAVs.
Simultaneous tracking and Behavior analysis of social insects.

Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa and Mandyam Srinivasan. "Shape and Behavior Encoded Tracking of Bee Dances" Accepted for Publication in IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).[pdf] NEW
Mahesh Ramachandran, Ashok Veeraraghavan and Rama Chellappa. Fast Bilinear SFM with side information, Accepted for Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. NEW
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa. Tracking Social Insects, Snowbird Learning Workshop 2005. (Invited Paper) [pdf] [ppt]

Image Stabilization
Horizon Tracking
Ego Motion Estimation from videos acquired from MAVs
Automated tracking and behavior analysis of social insects that are capable of autonomous navigation. [TrackingResult1] [TrackingResult2]