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Breaking the Circle: An Autonomous Control-Switching Strategy for Stable Orographic Soaring in MAVs
Sunyou Hwang, Christophe De Wagter, Bart Remes +1
Orographic soaring can significantly extend the endurance of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), but circling behavior, arising from control conflicts between the longitudinal and vertic…
The NederDrone: A hybrid lift, hybrid energy hydrogen UAV
Christophe De Wagter, Bart Remes, Ewoud Smeur +4
A lot of UAV applications require vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) combined with very long-range or endurance. Transitioning UAVs have been proposed to combine the VTOL capabil…
Design, Control and Visual Navigation of the DelftaCopter
Christophe De Wagter, Rick Ruijsink, Ewoud Smeur +4
To participate in the Outback Medical Express UAV Challenge 2016, a vehicle was designed and tested that can hover precisely, take-off and land vertically, fly fast forward efficie…
First free-flight flow visualisation of a flapping-wing robot
Matěj Karásek, Mustafa Percin, Torbjørn Cunis +4
Flow visualisations are essential to better understand the unsteady aerodynamics of flapping wing flight. The issues inherent to animal experiments, such as poor controllability an…
Obstacle Avoidance Strategy using Onboard Stereo Vision on a Flapping Wing MAV
Sjoerd Tijmons, Guido de Croon, Bart Remes +2
The development of autonomous lightweight MAVs, capable of navigating in unknown indoor environments, is one of the major challenges in robotics. The complexity of this challenge c…
Local Histogram Matching for Efficient Optical Flow Computation Applied to Velocity Estimation on Pocket Drones
Kimberly McGuire, Guido de Croon, Christophe de Wagter +3
Autonomous flight of pocket drones is challenging due to the severe limitations on on-board energy, sensing, and processing power. However, tiny drones have great potential as thei…