AI RESEARCH
Real-Time Branch-to-Tool Distance Estimation for Autonomous UAV Pruning: Benchmarking Five DEFOM-Stereo Variants from Simulation to Jetson Deployment
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2603.26250v1 Announce Type: new Autonomous tree pruning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a safety-critical real-world task: the onboard perception system must estimate the metric distance from a cutting tool to thin tree branches in real time so that the UAV can approach, align, and actuate the pruner without collision. We address this problem by