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Brief: First place at the outdoor competition, first place at the indoor competition, and the best paper award!🥇🥇🥇 The MAVLab ...

medegefinancierd is door de eu The TUDelft MAVlab is pleased to announce together with the municipalities of Katwijk and Wassenaar, ...

Inspired by how ants visually recognize their environment and count their steps to navigate back home, MAVLab researchers have developed ...

In collaboration with ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team, we published our work on end-to-end guidance and control networks in the June ...

Our work on fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight has been published in the Science Robotics May ...

Abstract Insects have long been recognized for their ability to navigate and return home using visual cues from their nest's ...

The work from PhD candidate Liming Zheng and Assistant Professor Salua Hamaza from the BioMorphic Intelligence Lab was published in the journal ...

With an escalating demand for quadcopters in emergency response, inspection and delivery, the need for speed and energy efficiency is ...

Birds display remarkable adaptability in harnessing their surroundings for efficient flight, exemplified by the ingenious behavior observed in Kestrels. These ...

In September, the MAVLab was at the International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) Conference and Competition in Aachen! The IMAV is ...

Federico Paredes-Vallés, Kirk W. Y. Scheper, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E. de Croon Event cameras have recently gained ...

At ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) 2023, MAVLab presented AvoidBench, a high-fidelity vision-based obstacle avoidance benchmarking suite ...

Researchers from MAVLab and collaborators have developed a new theory on how flying drones and insects can estimate the gravity ...

Salua and her team at the MAVLab and the Biomorphic Intelligence Lab have published 6 articles this month, 5 of which ...

From September 12th to 16th, we hosted IMAV 2022 in the Netherlands for the second time. The whole event featured ...

Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots Small autonomous mobile robots, such as drones, rovers, and legged robots, promise to perform a ...

We have teamed up with Royal Brinkman and start-up Mapture to develop AI and drone technology for greenhouse monitoring. These ...

Jesse J. Hagenaars*, Federico Paredes-Vallés*, Guido C.H.E. de Croon The field of neuromorphic computing promises extremely low-power and low-latency sensing ...

A gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site is difficult to find. Human firefighters cannot see ...

Optical flow for small flying robots Flying insects heavily rely on optical flow for visual navigation and flight control. Roboticists ...

A drone that can fly sustainably for long distances over land and water, and can land almost anywhere, will be ...

Neuromorphic processors like Loihi offer a promising alternative to conventional computing modules for endowing constrained systems like micro air vehicles ...

F. Paredes-Valles, G. C. H. E. de Croon Event cameras are novel vision sensors that sample, in an asynchronous fashion, ...

On 26th of June, we will host a symposium on sense and avoid technologies for small drones. The Percevite Symposium ...

We are very proud to officially announce that we have won the AlphaPilot AI Drone Racing Innovation challenge! The challenge, ...

We have succeeded in making a swarm of tiny drones that can autonomously explore unknown environments. This achievement, published in ...

Design and Testing of a Vertical take-off and Landing UAV optimized for carrying a Hydrogen Fuel-cell with Pressure Tank The ...

Fully autonomous drones safely made way for the high priority drones above TU Delft campus. About VUTURA VUTURA (Validation of ...

As is tradition, we will attend IMAV this year, which will be taking place in Madrid. IMAV offers a unique ...

Good water quality is important to humans and to nature. In a country with as much water as the Netherlands ...

Our recent paper use Google's PageRank algorithm to evaluate and optimize the behavior of swarms in a computationally efficient way, ...

NOS.nl (national news agency in the Netherlands) - Een luchtruim vol drones – hoe organiseer je dat? https://nos.nl/artikel/2291645-een-luchtruim-vol-drones-hoe-organiseer-je-dat.html Video-item: https://nos.nl/video/2291677-hoe-ontwijkt-de-ene-drone-de-andere-als-het-vol-wordt-in-het-luchtruim.html ...

The drone racing team of the MAVLab has presented the currently smallest autonomous racing drone in the world. The drone ...

Lockheed Martin and the Drone Racing League (DRL) have announced the nine teams that were accepted into the 2019 AlphaPilot ...

TU Delft scientists have uncovered how deep neural networks see distances in a single image. They report on their findings ...

Dr. ir. Guido de Croon was featured on an article in the major Dutch newspaper, "de Volkskrant", wherein he discussed ...

Saturday March 16th 2019: heavy rain and strong winds. No matter for the 500 odd people who gathered in Katwijk’s ...

Monday 11th March 2019, Delft, the Netherlands. How do you take down a drone? This is the question being asked ...

Teams of autonomous drones could be used in rescue missions, exploration, and more. How can we enable them to fly ...

Small robots have limited perception and processing power. This is an inconvenient truth that we have to deal with. With ...

The Delfly Nimble was featured on the program "Kleine beestjes: de superhelden van de aarde" ("Small beasts: the superheroes of ...

Public awareness of drones has risen dramatically over recent months. In the wake of the Gatwick drone incidents, the word ...

A team of TU Delft and ENAC researchers has won the overall 1st prize at the outdoor competition of the ...

Next week, the MAVLab will be off to the 10th International Micro Air Vehicle Competition and Conference, which will take ...

Besides dikes, the Netherlands are well known for its many lakes and rivers. It is difficult and labor intensive to ...

The DelFly Nimble, a new bio-inspired robot developed by MAVLab and employed for insect-flight research, is featured on the cover ...

We are happy to introduce a new Ph.D. student - Tom van Dijk - within the project "PercEvite: Sense and ...

In a previous post, we showed that a tiny 40-gram pocket drone can fly autonomously inside a room. Now we ...

With a 3rd place prize, a best paper prize and a best system prize at the 2017 installation of the ...

Cyclone In cooperation with the dronelab of ENAC in Toulouse, we have developed a hybrid UAV, called 'Cyclone'. It is ...

In recent experiments, we were able to show a 40-gram pocket drone flying inside an indoor environment, autonomously, using nothing ...

We are happy to introduce a new Ph.D. student. Diana Olejnik within the project: “Bio-inspired control and design of flapping ...

DroneClash, the first ever counter-drone competition, is announcing two of the counter-drone measures that teams must tackle during the game ...

DroneClash To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 13 February ...

Parapazzi Introductory Course Please find the introduction to vision based control with the paparazzi autopilot on a Bebop in an ...

Model identification of small flapping wing vehicles with unsteady aerodynamics requires new approaches. Publications [bibtex author="Armanini|Caetano" file="https://github.com/tudelft/publications/raw/master/pure.bib" group=year sort=year order=entrytype ...

The aim of this project is to investigate and design an autonomous swarm of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)to do multi-robot ...

In the week of October 17-21, the Micro Air Vehicle lab participated in the IMAV 2016 conference and competitions, which ...

The MAV-lab team of students and researchers has become second in the first ever autonomous drone race, which took place ...

Iridium The MavLab released v1.0 of their Iridium Satellite Communication System. Overall it acts as a transparent link with serial ...

During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to ...

DELFTACOPTER is a hybrid electric UAV with exceptional efficiency both in hovering and fast forward flight. It is equipped with state ...

Professor Guszti Eiben from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will be coming to our faculty at 10:00 on the 18th of ...

A new theory has been published that allows drones to see distances with a single camera. TU Delft’s Micro Air ...

Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ever smaller and lighter. This opens new areas of application, mainly because of the ...

The MAVLab finished the Interreg project BERISUAS, BEtter Response and Improved Safety through Unmanned Aircraft Systems: http://www.berisuas.eu/ ...

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On Saturday, June 18th the first international test with deploying an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to aid in combating an ...

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The Festo BionicANT program is using the stereo-vision system developed at the MavLab. https://www.festo.com/group/de/cms/10157.htm All details of the BionicANT can ...

The opening of the TU Delft Cyber Zoo was Wednesday 5th of March. The Cyber Zoo is a new research and ...

Our open-source "Optical Flow based Slope Estimation" code can be found: first_release_OF_slope_estimation publication: [bibtex file="https://github.com/tudelft/publications/raw/master/pure.bib" key=a0abc18b3ee04b4eaac9c3907a07dd49 highlight="optic|flow|slope|estimation"] ...

DelFly Explorer is selected to participate at the Innovation Awards: https://innovation-awards.nl/concept/delfly-explorer/ ...

BERISUAS stands for "Better response and improved safety through UAS" Read the BERISUAS Publication Project Video: TU Delft is the ...

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Integrated Coastal Zone Management via Increased Situation Awareness through Innovations on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Project website: http://www.2seas-uav.com/ ...

http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/ www.uavchallenge.csiro.au/galleries/2014/open_uas/open_uas.php ...

The International Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2014 (IMAV 2014) took place in Delft, the Netherlands. See: http://www.imavs.org  ...

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In this project, research is performed on a swarm of MAVs that will be able to search in a large ...

Small robots with limited computational and sensory capabilities are becoming more commonplace. Designing effective behavior for small robotic platforms to ...

TU Delft researchers have developed the DelFly Explorer, the world's first Micro Air Vehicle with flapping wings that can avoid obstacles ...

The MavLab team of the TUDelft presented their latest developments at IMAV2013 in Toulouse. The IMAV is a conference and ...

he Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering has designed, built and tested the world’s ...

The objective of this project was to design a system of multiple MAVs capable of flying in a swarm to ...

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A Swarm of Hybrid UAV can perform measurements in a large area. To cover this area, the drones need quite ...

The TU Delft participated in Project Explorer to enhance the operational possibilities of unmanned aerial vehicles for use by Police, ...

Background The capability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform landing task is essential for the autonomous operation, especially when ...

The MAVLab participates in several open source projects. The projects can be found on github: http://www.github.com/tudelft/ ...

Being allowed to operate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in operational airspace requires certification of the aircraft while guaranteeing the ...

In the DelFly project, we design and study autonomous flapping wing MAVs. Our approach is to always work with flying ...

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DelFly Micro is the "Smallest camera equipped Airplane" is the world (*Guiness Book of Records 2008). Read the full TUDelft article ...

The challenges in the autonomous flight of MAVs derive from the stringent weight and power requirements of MAVs. For example, ...