Aerial Robotics
We are interested in the study, design, and control of agile aerial robots with rich sensory and motor abilities that can move and work in very different environments: open skies, confined environments, on the ground, on vertical surfaces, in swarms, and near humans. We take inspiration from nature, where these systems abound and translate biological mechanisms and principles into innovative machines and control systems.
Our work has also resulted in spin-offs, such as Sensefly (founded in 2009, now a Parrot group company) and Flyability (founded in 2015), which won the 2015 Drones for Good award.
Our work has also resulted in spin-offs, such as Sensefly (founded in 2009, now a Parrot group company) and Flyability (founded in 2015), which won the 2015 Drones for Good award.
Related Publications
2025
First-Person View Interfaces for Teleoperation of Aerial Swarms
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 5, p. 4476 – 4483. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2025.3553062.Avian-inspired designs for multi-modal robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Multi-Aerial Robotic System for Power Line Inspection and Maintenance: Comparative Analysis from the AERIAL-CORE Final Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. 2025. p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/tfr.2025.3586991.2024
Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs
Nature. 2024. Vol. 636, p. 86 – 91. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-08228-9.Adaptive morphing of wing and tail for stable, resilient, and energy-efficient flight of avian-inspired drones
npj Robotics. 2024. Vol. 2, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44182-024-00015-y.A twist of the tail in turning maneuvers of a bird-inspired feathered drone
Science Robotics. 2024. Vol. 9, num. 96. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ado3890.Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones
Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-52369-4.Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Nature. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07755-9.High-Speed Motion Planning for Aerial Swarms in Unknown and Cluttered Environments
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2024. Vol. 40, p. 3642 – 3656. DOI : 10.1109/tro.2024.3429193.Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot
Communications Engineering. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-024-00241-0.Method for wind harvesting and wind rejection in flying drones
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2024.Multifunctional Wings and Appendages for Flight, Perching, and Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones
2024. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 13th – 17th, 2024. p. 8679 – 8685. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611506.Accurate and agile flight with winged drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.2023
Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2023. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 1856 – 1866. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.Wind Defiant Morphing Drones
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 2200297. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200297.Resilient drones with morphing wings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient
2023. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) “Embracing the Future: Making Robots for Humans”, London, May 29-June 2, 2023. p. 1349 – 1356. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160581.Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.2022
Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size
IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12150 – 12157. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3208716.Tales from a Robotic World. How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.A Lightweight Device for Energy Harvesting from Power Lines with a Fixed-Wing UAV
2022. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2022), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 21-24, 2022. p. 86 – 93. DOI : 10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836070.Dual Stiffness Tensegrity Platform for Resilient Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. p. 2200025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200025.On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3158758.How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022. p. 1 – 9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12054 – 12061. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3122107.Autonomous Detection and Deterrence of Pigeons on Buildings by Drones
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745 – 1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 1802 – 1809. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981956.Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73 – 80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 65, p. eabg5561. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abg5561.Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.2021
Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 223 – 230. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3123378.Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 8341 – 8348. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3102324.Smart Textiles that Teach: Fabric‐Based Haptic Device Improves the Rate of Motor Learning
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100043. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100043.Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 6805 – 6812. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3096159.Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments
Nature Machine Intelligence. 2021. Vol. 3, p. 545 – 554. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-021-00341-y.VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1343 – 1350. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3058073.Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 2954 – 2961. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3062298.Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms With a Vision-Based Headset
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1455 – 1462. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3051565.Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.2020
UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset
2020. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA (but held online), October 25-29, 2020. p. 4521 – 4528. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341042.Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities
Science Robotics. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 47, p. eabc2897. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abc2897.Hand-worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation
2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 10212 – 10218. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196664.Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4297 – 4304. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993768.A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4233 – 4240. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993757.Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator
2020. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA (but held online), Octobre 25-29, 2020. p. 8005 – 8011. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340854.2019
Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2950816.Haptic feedback perception and learning with cable-driven guidance in exosuit teleoperation of a simulated drone
IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 375 – 385. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2019.2925612.Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4523 – 4530. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2935377.Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications
IEEE Communications Letters. 2019. Vol. 23, num. 11, p. 1962 – 1966. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2934684.The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics
Journal of Field Robotics. 2019. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 1171 – 1191. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21887.The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments
Scientific Reports. 2019. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 7707. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-44187-2.The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 209 – 216. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885575.Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Embodied Flight with a Drone
2019. 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00070.The influence of limited visual sensing on the Reynolds flocking algorithm
2019. The Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00028.2018
Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor
2018. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, PyeongChang, GangWon Province, Korea, October 17-20, 2018. p. 291 – 296.A Soft Robot for Random Exploration of Terrestrial Environments
2018. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018. p. 7492 – 7497. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460667.Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays
Scientific Reports. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology
2018. 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 11-12, 2018.Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation
2018. Eurohaptics 2018, Pisa, Italy, June 13-16 2018. p. 404 – 415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 3813 – 3820. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2856282.Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation
2018. 11th International Conference on Haptics – Science, Technology, and Applications (EuroHaptics), Pisa, ITALY, Jun 13-16, 2018. p. 404 – 415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2362 – 2369. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 20, p. eaau0275. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2018. p. 201718648. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.2017
Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability
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2017.Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology
2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203 – 1. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.An origami-inspired cargo drone
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855 – 6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358 – 365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248 – 1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles
Journal of Field Robotics. 2017. Vol. 35, num. 2, p. 187 – 201. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21733.Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones
Interface Focus. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 20160092. DOI : 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0092.2016
A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance
2016. International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2016), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-27th, 2016. p. 396 – 401. DOI : 10.1109/SSRR.2016.7784333.Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle
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2016.A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings
2016. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016. p. 1576 – 1581. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759255.A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments
Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, p. 789 – 803. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9494-4.On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 820 – 827. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833.Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2016. Vol. 23, num. 3, p. 42 – 54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2016.2580593.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2016. 15th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Flagstaff, AZ, DEC 09-12, 2011. p. 21 – 39. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-29363-9_2.Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690 – 1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.2015
A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 026002. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/026002.A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 016005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016005.Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones
Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460 – 466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285 – 294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones
2015. SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto, Japon, October 28-30, 2015.Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage
2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669 – 674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997 – 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor
2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 26-30, 2015. p. 2190 – 2195. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139488.2014
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. p. 203 – 217.Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation
2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1 – 3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles
2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 4729 – 4734. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907551.Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device
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2014.A Collision Resilient Flying Robot
Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469 – 509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle
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2014.2013
Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.Miniature curved artificial compound eyes
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332 – 9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 3987 – 3992. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696926.Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. p. 281 – 293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.A Bee in the Mirror: A Bio-Inspired Model for Vision Based Mid-Air Collision Avoidance
Bionav – The application of animal navigation techniques in autonomous vehicles, Royal Holloway College, Egham, UK, 11-13 April 2013.Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60 – 71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive
2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433 – 4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.Aerial collective systems
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2013. p. 609 – 660.Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 5 – 18. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_1.Optic-Flow Based Control of a 46g Quadrotor
2013. Workshop on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
2013. IROS 13, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-6, 2013. p. 1361 – 1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696526.Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 1886 – 1892. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696606.Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks
2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots
2013. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 281 – 293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.2012
Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing
2012. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, December 3-7, 2012. p. 1591 – 1596. DOI : 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477823.Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles
2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.. p. 4737 – 4742. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608.An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 – 1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions
2012. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, July 1-4, 2012. p. 569 – 574. DOI : 10.1109/ICCME.2012.6275674.Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors
2012. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 3956 – 3961. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225011.Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 4641 – 4647. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224987.2011
Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye
AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.
2011.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.
2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.CURVACE – CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes
2011. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, May 4-6, 2011. p. 308 – 309. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.040.Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems
Journal of Field Robotics. 2011. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405 – 423. DOI : 10.1002/rob.20385.myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems
2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2011), San Francisco, September 25-30, 2011. p. 5015 – 5020. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095129.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems
2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Vision Tape – a novel class of flexible vision sensor for robots and humans
IEEE Swiss Image and Vision Sensors Workshop 2011 (SIVS 2011), Zurich, Switzerland, September 8, 2011.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings
2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. p. 1503 – 1508. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery
2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.2010
Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection
PLOS Biology. 2010. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292.Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles. 2010. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107 – 117. DOI : 10.1260/1756-8293.2.2.107.Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System
2010. 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010. p. 6599 – 602. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627127.Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments
2010. 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10th 2010. p. 562 – 563. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_61.Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010). p. 15 – 20. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509421.A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77 – 91. DOI : 10.1007/s12213-010-0026-1.Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
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