TU Delft researchers have developed the DelFly Explorer, the world’s first Micro Air Vehicle with flapping wings that can avoid obstacles by itself. The uniqueness of this achievement lies in the DelFly Explorer’s very low weight (20 grams, i.e. a few sheets of paper). (read more…)
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Publications
Autonomous Flight of a 20-gram Flapping Wing MAV with a 4-gram Onboard Stereo Vision System. In: s.n., (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), pp. 4982–4987, IEEE, United States, 2014, (The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014) ; Conference date: 31-05-2014 Through 07-06-2014).
Obstacle Avoidance Strategy using Onboard Stereo Vision on a Flapping Wing MAV. In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 858–874, 2017, ISSN: 1552-3098.
Autonomous Door and Corridor Traversal with a 20-Gram Flapping Wing MAV by Onboard Stereo Vision. In: Aerospace — Open Access Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, 2018, ISSN: 2226-4310.
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