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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 ...
2023Identifying aerodynamics of small fixed-wing drones using inertial measurements for model-based navigation
Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré
The success of drone missions is incumbent on an accurate determination of the drone pose and velocity, which are collectively estimated by fusing iner- tial measurement unit and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) mea- surements. However, during a G ...
2023Open Access Identifying Aerodynamics of Small Fixed-Wing Drones Using Inertial Measurements for Model-Based Navigation
Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré
The success of drone missions is incumbent on an accurate determination of the drone pose and velocity, which are collectively estimated by fusing inertial measurement unit and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements. However, during a GNSS ...
2023Virtual Landmark-Based Control of Docking Support for Assistive Mobility Devices
Diego Felipe Paez Granados, Chen Yang
This work proposes an autonomous docking control for nonholonomic constrained mobile robots and applies it to an intelligent mobility device or wheelchair for assisting the user in approaching resting furniture such as a chair or a bed. We defined a virtua ...
2021Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski
The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...
EPFL2020Challenges and implemented technologies used in autonomous drone racing
Davide Scaramuzza, Titus Cieslewski, Guido De Croon, Shuo Li
Autonomous drone racing (ADR) is a challenge for autonomous drones to navigate a cluttered indoor environment without relying on any external sensing in which all the sensing and computing must be done with onboard resources. Although no team could complet ...
2019The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...
2019Deep Drone Racing: From Simulation to Reality with Domain Randomization
Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges for robotics, which still limit the deployment of small autonomous drones. We address these challenges in the context ...
2019Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey
Lightweight, autonomous drones are soon expected to be used in a wide variety of tasks such as aerial surveillance, delivery, or monitoring of existing architectures. A large body of literature in robotic perception and control exists. Existing methods are ...
2018Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski
Drones are rapidly becoming an affordable and often faster solution for parcel delivery than terrestrial vehicles. Existing transportation drones and software infrastructures are mostly designed by logistics companies for trained users and dedicated infras ...
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