Machine Heart
Machine Heart
Apr 11, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How PiLoT Enables Monocular Drones to Navigate 10 km Drift‑Free and Lock onto Targets

PiLoT, a CVPR 2026 Highlight paper, introduces a neural pixel‑to‑3D registration framework that lets a single‑camera UAV achieve drift‑free 6‑DoF pose and real‑time target locking over 10 km without GNSS, running at 25‑30 FPS on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin and outperforming existing hybrid and absolute‑pose methods.

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How PiLoT Enables Monocular Drones to Navigate 10 km Drift‑Free and Lock onto Targets
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jun 20, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Meituan Robotics Institute Shares Insights on Drone Safety Reliability, PHM Technology, UAV Localization and Tactile Sensing

At a recent Meituan Robotics Institute symposium, experts detailed the company’s fourth‑generation drone safety architecture with redundant subsystems and intelligent parachutes, discussed PHM advances for fault prediction, showcased all‑weather close‑range UAV positioning across Chinese cities, and presented flexible tactile‑vision fusion research for object recognition and robotic grasping.

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Meituan Robotics Institute Shares Insights on Drone Safety Reliability, PHM Technology, UAV Localization and Tactile Sensing