UAV Motion Planning and Exploration using Onboard Sensors

Abstract

Here I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the people who helped me during my Ph.D. It is because of their sincere help that I can successfully complete my studies.First of all, I need to thank my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Pascual Campoy. I would thank him for giving me a chance to study in the Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group (CVAR) group. I also thank him for giving me the opportunity to participate in many international competitions and conferences. In the process of participating in these competitions and conferences, I have learned a lot of knowledge related to my research topic as well as expanded my horizons. In addition, I also thank him for his kind support for my research work during my Ph.D. study.I also want to thanks my kind colleagues and friends in the CVAR group. I would like to thank Dr. Hriday Bavle for his kind assistances to solve my various problems from my daily life and research work, Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, for his kind help and advice in my flight experiments, his sense of responsibility and leadership has deeply affected me, Dr. Carlos Sampedro and Dr. Adrián Carrio, for their kind suggestion and help for a lot of my research work, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez, for his help in my research life in CVAR, he is also one of the funniest people I have met in Madrid. I also want to thank Prof. Dr. Changhong Fu, who is a past member of the group, for his useful advice in my Ph.D. study, his successful example has encouraged me to go forward. I would also express my gratitude to Ramón