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
2023
Use of an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems
Remote Sensing In Ecology And Conservation. 2023-12-25. DOI : 10.1002/rse2.373.
Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2023-11-21. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.
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.Resilient drones with morphing wings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.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. 2022-10-01. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12150-12157. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3208716.
On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions
IEEE Access. 2022-03-10. Vol. 10, p. 1-14. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3158758.Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.
How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022-01-31. p. 1-9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.
Autonomous Detection and Deterrence of Pigeons on Buildings by Drones
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745-1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.
Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73-80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.2021
Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021-11-21. p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.
VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-03-15. 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. 2021-02-25. 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. 2021-01-14. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1455-1462. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3051565.2020
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.
Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities
Science Robotics. 2020-10-28. Vol. 5, num. 47, p. eabc2897. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abc2897.
Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-05-11. 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. 2020-05-11. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4233-4240. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993757.Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.2019
Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-08-14. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4523-4530. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2935377.
The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics
Journal of Field Robotics. 2019-08-07. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 1171-1191. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21887.
Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications
IEEE Communications Letters. 2019-08-12. Vol. 23, num. 11, p. 1962-1966. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2934684.
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.
The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2019-04-01. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 209-216. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885575.2018
Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.
Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor
2018-10-17. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, PyeongChang, GangWon Province, Korea, October 17-20, 2018. p. 291-296.
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.
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. 2018. p. 201718648. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.
A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology
2018. 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 11-12, 2018.
Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays
Scientific Reports. 2018-04-11. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.2017
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.Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology
2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203-1-1016203-6. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248-1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.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.Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358-365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.2016
Comparative Study of Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation of VTOL Aerial Robots
Ieee Transactions On Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems. 2016. Vol. 46, num. 10, p. 1352-1363. DOI : 10.1109/Tsmc.2015.2503396.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.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.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.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.Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.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.Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690-1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.2015
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.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.Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones
Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460-466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.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.Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.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.A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997-2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.2014
Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle
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2014.Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device
US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.
2014.Curved artificial compound-eyes for autonomous navigation
2014. Micro-Optics, Brussels, Belgium, APR 14-16, 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2052710.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.A Collision Resilient Flying Robot
Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469-509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.2013
Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.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.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.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.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.Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks
2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.Miniature curved artificial compound eyes
PNAS. 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332-9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.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.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.Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.Representation of Vehicle Dynamics in Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robots
2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, May 6-10, 2013. p. 1485-1491. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630767.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.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.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_21.2012
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.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.Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.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.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.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.An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 -1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.2011
myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems
2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 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.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.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.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 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.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.Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.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.20385.2010
Review of Light-weight Payloads for MAVs and Experiments with Thermopiles
2010
Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045003.Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude
Current Biology. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847-R849. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.022.Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.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.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.Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, Anchorage, Alaska, May 7, 2010.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information
Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117-144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.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.Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3329-3334. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509273.An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, US, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3349-3354. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338.2009
How to control MAVs in cluttered environments?
2009. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St-Louis, October 11-15.optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow
2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs
2009. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 2873-2878. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465.A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 583-588. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201-219. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9139-6.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Methods for Artificial Evolution of Truly Cooperative Robots
2009. International Workshop on Artificial Neural Network 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. p. 768-772. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_96.Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-008-9104-9.2008
A time-of-travel motion detection chip for steering autonomous robots
2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 22 September 2008.Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs
2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.Optic flow to control small UAVs
2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 22 September 2008.Ishtar: a flexible and lightweight software for remote data access
2008. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference EMAV08, Braunschweig, Germany, July 8-10, 2008.Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot
2008. 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 2008. p. 41-42.Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots
2008. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. p. 1242-1247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650856.Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay
Swarm Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167-188. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-008-0013-5.Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight
PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.
2008.A miniature 7g jumping robot
2008. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2008), Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008. p. 373-378. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543236.2007
Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 61-62.A Simple and Robust Fixed-Wing Platform for Outdoor Flying Robot Experiments
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69-70.Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight
2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133-134.A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot
Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671-1684. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782227417.Motion Detection Circuits for a Time-To-Travel Algorithm
2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, 27-30 May. p. 3079-3082. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378059.3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’07), Roma, Italy, April 10th-14th, 2007. p. 1336-1341. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363170.A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2007), Rome, Italy, 10-14.4.2007. p. 367-372. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363814.2006
Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships
Autonomous Robots. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243-254. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-006-9718-8.A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation
2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15. p. 3267-3272. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2006.282436.Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers
2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836-2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2006. Vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137-146. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2005.858857.2005
From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons
Artificial Life. 2005. Vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121-138. DOI : 10.1162/1064546053278900.Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
2005. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2005), Barcelona, 18-22 April. p. 2594-2599. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504.Bio-inspired vision-based flying robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.2004
Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft
2004