First Anti-Drone Race
DroneClash To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will therefore host the first ever anti-drone […]
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Ph.D. position on “Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs” at TU Delft
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, announces a vacancy for one Ph.D. student within the project: Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs Description of the project: The […]
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Drone learns “to see” in zero-gravity
During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to see distances using only one eye, reported scientists at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) […]
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DELFTACOPTER – Outback Medical Express
DELFTACOPTER is a hybrid electric UAV with exceptional efficiency both in hovering and fast forward flight. It is equipped with state of the art on-board stereoscopic wide field of view computer vision. The design combines the […]
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New theory allows drones to see distances with one eye
A new theory has been published that allows drones to see distances with a single camera. TU Delft’s Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory has found that drones approaching an object with an insect-inspired vision strategy become […]
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Extremely light-weight Autonomous MAVs
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ever smaller and lighter. This opens new areas of application, mainly because of the capability to access small spaces. A straightforward example of such an application is building inspection. […]
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Evolutionary Robotics for Micro Air Vehicles
Small robots with limited computational and sensory capabilities are becoming more commonplace. Designing effective behaviour for small robotic platforms to complete complex tasks is a major challenge. A promising methodology to address this problem is […]
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Control of the Cyclone Hybrid UAV
Cyclone In cooperation with the dronelab of ENAC in Toulouse, we have developed a hybrid UAV, called ‘Cyclone’. It is hybrid in the sense that it can hover, as well as fly like an airplane. […]
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Towards an autonomous pocket drone for indoor navigation
In recent experiments, we were able to show a 40-gram pocket drone flying inside an indoor environment, autonomously, using nothing but a 4-gram stereo-camera. With a new computer vision method, called Edge-FS, the pocket drone […]
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New PhD student Diana Olejnik
We are happy to introduce a new PhD student. Diana Olejnik within the project: “Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs”. Diana graduated from West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland with a […]
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DroneClash announces first two counter-drone measures
DroneClash, the first ever counter-drone competition, is announcing two of the counter-drone measures that teams must tackle during the game. The DroneClash, which takes place on 4 December in The Netherlands, aims to generate new […]
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New MavLab Students
Welcome to the MavLab. Before you start, please take some time to read our introduction. It has the links to software, rules, calendars, groups etc. https://svn.lr.tudelft.nl/trac/MAVLAB If you do not have access yet, please send […]
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First Anti-Drone Race
DroneClash To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will therefore host the first ever anti-drone […]
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Introduction to Paparazzi Autopilot – MAV Course
Please find the introduction to vision based control with the paparazzi autopilot on a bebop in an optitrack arena at: https://tudelft.github.io/coursePaparazzi/
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Ph.D. position on “Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs” at TU Delft
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, announces a vacancy for one Ph.D. student within the project: Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs Description of the project: The […]
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M.Sc. Assignments
MAVLab offers various M.Sc. assignments that correspond to the research topics of the group. Please contact any MAVlab members for an overview of available assignments.
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Flapping Wing Modelling
Model identification of small flapping wing vehicles with unsteady aerodynamics requires new approaches. Publications 2013 J. V. Caetano, C. C. de Visser, B. D. W. Remes, C. De Wagter, E. {Van Kampen}, and M. Mulder, […]