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Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

Dario Floreano, Charalampos Vourtsis, Victor Casas Rochel, William John Stewart

Intense winds are a challenge for vertical take-off and landing drones with wings. In particular, in the hovering regime, wings are sensitive to wind currents that can be detrimental to their operational and energetic performances. Tail-sitters are particu ...

2023

Error Augmentation Improves Visuomotor Adaptation during a Full-Body Balance Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Oliver Alan Kannape, Jemina Fasola

Visual amplification of kinematic errors has successfully been applied to improve performance for upper limb movements. In this study, we investigated whether visual error augmentation can promote faster adaptation during a full-body balance task. Healthy ...

IEEE2019

Lake Imaging and Monitoring Aerial Drone

David Andrew Barry, Ludovic Zulliger, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Jean-Luc Liardon, Lukas Oliver Hostettler, Karl Johannes Kangur

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included (i) fuselage capable of accommodating an imaging package or other instrumentation, (ii) suitability for over-lake BVLOS author ...

2018

Protection de la fosse de dissipation du barrage de Chancy-Pougny avec prismes en béton

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

La fosse de dissipation à l’aval du barrage de Chancy-Pougny qui fait face à une érosion progressive est l’objet de cette étude. Un modèle physique a été construit à l’échelle 1:55 afin de mieux comprendre les sources de cette érosion. Due à l’asymétrie gé ...

Société hydrotechnique de France2017

Accuracy Prediction in Aerial Mapping

Laurent Valentin Jospin

Low cost and low weight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems with imaging capability have enjoyed a rapid development over the past years and are increasingly deployed as carriers for mapping purposes. They present a well-established tool for local-area r ...

2017

Positioning Autonomy of a Fixed-Wing UAV through VDM/INS Integration with Experimental Results

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

In this paper, practical realization of a previously proposed VDM based integrated navigation for UAVs is presented. This method utilizes the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) fed by autopilot control commands as main process model within the navigation filter a ...

2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Le déploiement inégal des Pédibus à Lausanne et Aix-en-Provence : une analyse socio-spatiale

Eléonore Pigalle

"Pédibus, un premier pas vers le changement". Cette campagne de sensibilisation reflète la mise à l'agenda des politiques publiques locales en faveur des déplacements à pied. Inscrite dans un contexte d'augmentation de l'accompagnement des enfants vers l'é ...

2016

Visual Augmentation of Deictic Gestures in MOOC Videos

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma

We present an eye-tracking study to compare different modalities for visual augmentations of the teacher’s explicit deictic gestures on a video lecture. We compared three visualizations: 1) hand gestures with a pointer, 2) gaze overlay, and 3) no-augmentat ...

2016

Autonomous Navigation Of Small Uavs Based On Vehicle Dynamic Model

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, in which the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) serves as the main process model within the navigation filter. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability o ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

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