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A bioinspired Separated Flow wing provides turbulence resilience and aerodynamic efficiency for miniature drones

Small-scale drones have enough sensing and computing power to find use across a growing number of applications. However, flying in the low-Reynolds number regime remains challenging. High sensitivity to atmospheric turbulence compromises vehicle stability ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

The 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 ...

2019

Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey

Davide Scaramuzza

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 ...

2018

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

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, is rapidly growing, both in terms of size and of number of applications. Civil applications range from mapping, inspection, search and rescue, taking aerial footage, to art show, entertain ...

EPFL2017

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

Timm Faulwasser

We present a scheme for run-to-run disturbance rejection in optimization-based feedforward path following of a remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS). The proposed scheme is based on the inter-run estimation of unknown disturbances, such as wind forces an ...

2015

Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Florian Gandor

This paper presents a development of an open-source flight planning tool for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) that is dedicated to high-precision photogrammetric mapping. This tool contains planning functions that are usually available in professio ...

2015

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Yosef Akhtman

This paper demonstrates the potential of employment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (mUAS) for environmental research applications and the research of natural waterway systems in particular. Specifically, we describe the recent advances in the field of ...

2014

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become very affordable and small in recent years, and are increasingly used in a wide range of monitoring and surveillance applications. A major problem when operating with swarm of UAVs is the risk of mid-air collision ...

2012

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

Timm Faulwasser, Michael Köpf

For economical and ecological reasons aircraft are required to become more efficient by reducing fuel consumption and CO

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emissions. One way to achieve these objectives is to decrease the weight of the aircraft structure. The reduction is, however, limi ...

2012

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A bioinspired Separated Flow wing provides turbulence resilience and aerodynamic efficiency for miniature drones

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

A bioinspired Separated Flow wing provides turbulence resilience and aerodynamic efficiency for miniature drones

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS