Torsten Merz

On-board multi-objective mission planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (2009)

Wu, Paul P.Y., Campbell, Duncan A., Merz, Torsten

A system for automated mission planning is presented with a view to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the National Airspace System (NAS). This paper describes methods for modelling decision...

Control System Framework for Autonomous Robots Based on Extended State Machines (2009)

Torsten Merz, Piotr Rudol, Mariusz Wzorek

We present a new framework optimized for the design, implementation, and testing of control systems for autonomous robots. It is based on a new visual specification language which specifies both...

On-board multi-objective mission planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (2009)

Wu, Paul P.Y., Campbell, Duncan A., Merz, Torsten

A system for automated mission planning is presented with a view to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the National Airspace System (NAS). This paper describes methods for modelling decision...

On-board multi-objective mission planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (2009)

Wu, Paul P.Y., Campbell, Duncan A., Merz, Torsten

A system for automated mission planning is presented with a view to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the National Airspace System (NAS). This paper describes methods for modelling decision...

On-board multi-objective mission planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (2009)

Wu, Paul P.Y., Campbell, Duncan A., Merz, Torsten

A system for automated mission planning is presented with a view to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the National Airspace System (NAS). This paper describes methods for modelling decision...

a (2007)

Torsten Merz, Dietrich Paulus, Heinrich Niemann

In several applications of interferogram analysis, e.g. automated nondestructive testing, it is necessary to detect irregular interference phase distributions or to compare interference phase...

b (2007)

Torsten Merz, Frank Elandaloussi, Dietrich Paulus, Wolfgang Osten

approach for holographic non-destructive testing of satellite fuel tanks

Calibration from Images with known Objects (2007)

Gudrun Socher, Torsten Merz, Stefan Posch

We present a method for camera calibration and metric reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of scenes with several, possibly small and nearly planar objects from one or more images. We...

From Motion Planning to Control - A Navigation Framework for an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2006)

Mariusz Wzorek, Gianpaolo Conte, Piotr Rudol, Torsten Merz, Simone Duranti, Patrick Doherty

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which can operate autonomously in dynamic and complex operational environments is becoming increasingly more common. While the application domains in which...

Autonomous landing of an unmanned helicopter based on vision and inertial sensing (2004)

Torsten Merz, Simone Duranti, Gianpaolo Conte

Abstract. In this paper, we propose an autonomous precision landing method for an unmanned helicopter based on an on-board visual navigation system consisting of a single pan-tilting camera,...

Dynamic 3D path following for an autonomous helicopter (2004)

Gianpaolo Conte, Simone Duranti, Torsten Merz

Abstract: A hybrid control system for dynamic path following for an autonomous helicopter is described. The hierarchically structured system combines continuous control law execution with...

Line segmentation for interferograms of continously deforming objects (1997)

Torsten Merz, Dietrich Paulus, Heinrich Niemann

A new robust and fast method for non-interactive line segmentation of interferograms is proposed. Fringe contours are represented as a set of polygons using a new technique for contour approximation....

3-D Reconstruction and Camera Calibration from Images with Known Objects (1995)

Gudrun Socher, Torsten Merz, Stefan Posch

We present a method for camera calibration and metric reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of scenes with several, possibly small and nearly planar objects from one or more images. We...

3-D Reconstruction and Camera Calibration from Images with known Objects (1995)

Gudrun Socher, Torsten Merz, Stefan Posch

We present a method for camera calibration and metric reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of scenes with several, possibly small and nearly planar objects from one or more images. We...

-D Reconstruction and Camera Calibration from Images with known Objects (1995)

Gudrun Socher, Torsten Merz, Stefan Posch

We present a method for camera calibration and metric reconstruction of the three-dimensional structure of scenes with several, possibly small and nearly planar objects from one or more images. We...