Publications

Conference Papers

  1. J. Byrne and C.J. Taylor, “Expansion Segmentation for Visual Collision Detection and Estimation”, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’09), pp. 1938-1945, May 12-17, 2009; [pdf][video][html]
  2. B. Cohen and J. Byrne, “Inertial Aided SIFT for Visual Collision Estimation”, Video proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’09), May 12-17, 2009;  [video]
  3. J. Saunders, R. Beard and J. Byrne, “Vision-Based Reactive Multiple Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Air Vehicles”,  Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC’09), June 10-12, 2009
  4. H. Yu, R. Beard, J. Byrne, Vision-based navigation frame mapping and planning for collision avoidance for miniature air vehicles, Control Engineering Practice, volume 18, issue 7, year 2010, pp. 824 – 836
  5. H. Yu, R. Beard and J. Byrne, “Vision-based local multi-resolution mapping and path planning for Miniature Air Vehicles”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC’09), June 10-12, 2009
  6. H. Yu, R. Beard and J. Byrne, “Vision-Based Local Multi-resolution Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Air Vehicles”, Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC’09), August 10, 2009
  7. J. Byrne and R. Mehra, “Wireless Video Noise Classification for Micro Air Vehicles”, Proceedings of the 2008 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Conference, North America 2008, June 10-12, 2008; [pdf] [poster]
  8. J. Byrne, M. Cosgrove, and R. Mehra, “Stereo Based Obstacle Detection for an Unmanned Air Vehicle”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 15-19, 2006, pp. 2830 – 2835; [pdf][video]
  9. J. Kelsey, J. Byrne, M. Cosgrove, S. Seereeram, and R. Mehra, “Vision-Based Relative Pose Estimation for Autonomous Rendezvous And Docking”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 04-11 2006, pp. 1 – 20; [pdf]
  10. R. Mehra, J. Byrne, J. Boskovic, “Flight Testing of a Fault-Tolerant Control and Vision Based Obstacle Avoidance System for UAVs”, Proceedings of the 2005 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Conference, North America, 2005; [pdf][poster]
  11. R. Mehra, J. Byrne, J. Boskovic, “Intelligent Autonomy and Vision Based Obstacle Avoidance for UAVs”, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Yale Workshop On Adaptive and Learning Systems, New Haven, CT, June 2005, pp 59-66; [pdf]
  12. J. Byrne, M. Cosgrove, and R. Mehra, “Real Time Stereo Based Obstacle Detection for UAV Threat Avoidance: Initial Flight Experiment Results”, Proceedings of the 2005 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology (GOMACTech), April 4-7, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, Session 2.5 (invited paper); [pdf]
  13. J. Byrne, A. Gandhe, R. Prasanth, B. Ravichandran, M. Huff, R. Mehra, “A k-partition, Graph Theoretic Approach to Perceptual Organization”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on integration of knowledge intensive multi agent systems (KIMAS), Cambridge MA, September 30 – October 4 2003, pp. 336-342; [pdf]

Technical Reports

  1. J. Byrne, A. Corrubia, A.Gandhe and R.Mehra, “A Robust Image Based Navigation System”, NAVAIR SBIR Phase II Final Report, Contract N68335-05-C-0055, April 2007;
  2. J. Byrne and R.Mehra, “VAMAV: Visual Collision Detection and Avoidance for a Micro Air Vehicle”, AFRL/MNGI SBIR Phase I Final Report, Contract FA8651-06-M-0201, 2007;
  3. J. Byrne, S. Sarkar, R. Mehra, “EVASE: Extensible Video Analysis for Symbology Events”, Air Force SBIR Phase I Final Report, 1401 final report, Contract FA9302-05-M-1002, February 2006;
  4. J. Byrne, M. Cosgrove, R. Mehra, “VISTA: Visual Threat Awareness for an Unmanned Air Vehicle”, DARPA SBIR Phase II Final Report, Contract DAAH01-00-C-R187, April 2005;
  5. A. Gandhe, J. Byrne, R. Prasanth, M. Huff, B. Ravichandran, R. Mehra “Automatic Target Recognition using Perceptual Organization”, Army SBIR Phase II Final Report, Contract DAAD19-01-C-0057, Jan 2004;
  6. J. Byrne, S. Yu and R. Mehra, “Robust Detection of Scatterable Minefields”, SBIR Phase I Final Report, Army Contract DAAB07-03-C-L201, July 2003;
  7. J. Byrne, A. El Fallah and R. Mehra, “Unified Bayesian Cluster Target Tracking and Discrimination”, MDA SBIR Phase II progress report 3, Contract DASG60-03-C-0016, September 2003;
  8. J. Byrne, S. Singh, “Precise Image Segmentation for Forest Survey”, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-14;

Patents

  1. J. Byrne and R. Mehra, “Method and System For Visual Collision Detection and Estimation”, United States Patent and Trademark Office Publication number US-20100305857-A1, 2010;
  2. J. Byrne and R. Mehra, “A System and Method for Obstacle Detection using Binocular Stereo”, United States Patent and Trademark Office Provisional Patent Application EV 713248736 US, April 2006;

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