The work from PhD candidate Liming Zheng and Assistant Professor Salua Hamaza from the BioMorphic Intelligence Lab was published in the journal of IEEE Robotics and Automation …
Category: Research
With an escalating demand for quadcopters in emergency response, inspection and delivery, the need for speed and energy efficiency is paramount. However, developing autonomous systems …
Birds display remarkable adaptability in harnessing their surroundings for efficient flight, exemplified by the ingenious behavior observed in Kestrels. These birds employ a unique technique …
At ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) 2023, MAVLab presented AvoidBench, a high-fidelity vision-based obstacle avoidance benchmarking suite for multi-rotors. Motivation Vision-based obstacle …
Researchers from MAVLab and collaborators have developed a new theory on how flying drones and insects can estimate the gravity direction. Whereas drones typically use …
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots Small autonomous mobile robots, such as drones, rovers, and legged robots, promise to perform a wide range of tasks, from …
A gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site is difficult to find. Human firefighters cannot see the gas, so they have …
Optical flow for small flying robots Flying insects heavily rely on optical flow for visual navigation and flight control. Roboticists have endowed small flying robots …
A drone that can fly sustainably for long distances over land and water, and can land almost anywhere, will be able to serve …
Neuromorphic processors like Loihi offer a promising alternative to conventional computing modules for endowing constrained systems like micro air vehicles (MAVs) with robust, …