REAL: Rapid Exploration with Active Loop-Closing toward Large-Scale 3D Mapping using UAVs

Eungchang Mason Lee,Junho Choi,Hyungtae Lim,Hyun Myung,Eungchang Mason Lee,Junho Choi,Hyungtae Lim,Hyun Myung

Exploring an unknown environment without colliding with obstacles is one of the essentials of autonomous vehicles to perform diverse missions such as structural inspections, rescues, deliveries, and so forth. Therefore, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), which are fast, agile, and have high degrees of freedom, have been widely used. However, previous approaches have two limitations: a) First, they m...