Zachary Taylor

TL;DR: This work proposes a method to incrementally build ESDFs from Truncated Signed Distance Fields (TSDFs), a common implicit surface representation used in computer graphics and vision, and shows that it can build TSDFs faster than Octomaps, and that it is more accurate than occupancy maps.

TL;DR: Voxblox as mentioned in this paper uses Euclidean Signed Distance Fields (ESDFs) to generate a surface representation of the environment for a micro-drone in unstructured, unexplored environments.

TL;DR: This paper presents a continuous-time trajectory optimization method for real-time collision avoidance on multirotor UAVs, and proposes a system where this motion planning method is used as a local replanner, that runs at a high rate to continuously recompute safe trajectories as the robot gains information about its environment.

TL;DR: Voliro is presented, a novel aerial platform that combines the advantages of existing multirotor systems with the agility of vehicles having omniorientational controllability, so that Voliro can fly in any direction while maintaining an arbitrary orientation.

TL;DR: Comparison of nine corneas hydrated from 79.1% to 91.5% concentration by mass demonstrated an approximately linear relationship between terahertz reflectivity and water concentration, with a monotonically decreasing slope as the frequency increases.