The MAVLab publishes the code of its research as open source. This list shows each project with its papers, newest first. More code is on github.com/tudelft.
2026
Bee-Nav github.com/tudelft/Bee-Nav
Dequan Ou, Jesse J. Hagenaars, Maciej R. Jankowski, Michiel V.M. Firlefyn, Christophe De Wagter, Florian T. Muijres, Jacqueline Degen, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: Efficient robot navigation inspired by honeybee learning flights.
In: Nature, vol. 653, no. 8116, pp. 1039–1046, 2026, ISSN: 0028-0836.
On this website: Honeybees teach drones how to navigate
2025
2024
event_planar github.com/tudelft/event_planar
F. Paredes-Vallés, J.J. Hagenaars, J. Dupeyroux, S. Stroobants, Y. Xu, G.C.H.E. de Croon: Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight.
In: Science Robotics, vol. 9, no. 90, 2024, ISSN: 2470-9476, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
On this website: Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight
indiflight github.com/tudelft/indiflight
Robin Ferede, Till Blaha, Erin Lucassen, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: One Net to Rule Them All: Domain Randomization in Quadcopter Racing Across Different Platforms.
In: Ott, Christian; Admoni, Henny; Behnke, Sven; Bogdan, Stjepan; Bolopion, Aude; Choi, Youngjin; Ficuciello, Fanny; Gans, Nicholas; Gosselin, Clement; Harada, Kensuke; Kayacan, Erdal; Kim, H. Jin; Leutenegger, Stefan; Liu, Zhe; Maiolino, Perla; Marques, Lino; Matsubara, Takamitsu; Mavromatti, Anastasia; Minor, Mark; O'Kane, Jason; Park, Hae Won; Park, Hae-Won; Rekleitis, Ioannis; Renda, Federico; Ricci, Elisa; Riek, Laurel D.; Sabattini, Lorenzo; Shen, Shaojie; Sun, Yu; Wieber, Pierre-Brice; Yamane, Katsu; Yu, Jingjin (Ed.): 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025, pp. 6357–6363, IEEE, United States, 2025, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.; 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025 ; Conference date: 19-05-2025 Through 23-05-2025).
Till M. Blaha, Ewoud J.J. Smeur, Bart D.W. Remes: Control of Unknown Quadrotors from a Single Throw.
In: 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2024, pp. 10350–10355, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2024 ; Conference date: 14-10-2024 Through 18-10-2024).
T.M. Blaha, E.J.J. Smeur, B.D.W. Remes, C.C. de Visser: Flying a quadrotor with unknown actuators and sensor configuration.
In: Richardson, T. (Ed.): IMAV 2024: Proceedings of the 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 192–198, 2024, (International Micro Air Vehicle Conference , IMAV 2024 ; Conference date: 16-09-2024 Through 20-09-2024).
indiflightSupport github.com/tudelft/indiflightSupport
Till M. Blaha, Ewoud J.J. Smeur, Bart D.W. Remes: Control of Unknown Quadrotors from a Single Throw.
In: 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2024, pp. 10350–10355, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2024 ; Conference date: 14-10-2024 Through 18-10-2024).
T.M. Blaha, E.J.J. Smeur, B.D.W. Remes, C.C. de Visser: Flying a quadrotor with unknown actuators and sensor configuration.
In: Richardson, T. (Ed.): IMAV 2024: Proceedings of the 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 192–198, 2024, (International Micro Air Vehicle Conference , IMAV 2024 ; Conference date: 16-09-2024 Through 20-09-2024).
inertiaEstimation github.com/tudelft/inertiaEstimation
Till M. Blaha, Mike M. Kuijper, Radu Pop, Ewoud J.J. Smeur: Rapid and Inexpensive Inertia Tensor Estimation From a Single Object Throw.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 7365–7371, 2025, ISSN: 2377-3766, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
learning2home-icra24-bearingNet github.com/tudelft/learning2home-icra24-bearingNet
Michiel V.M. Firlefyn, Jesse J. Hagenaars, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation.
In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024, pp. 6022–6028, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 ; Conference date: 13-05-2024 Through 17-05-2024).
On this website: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation (ICRA’24)
learning2home-icra24-flightmare github.com/tudelft/learning2home-icra24-flightmare
Michiel V.M. Firlefyn, Jesse J. Hagenaars, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation.
In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024, pp. 6022–6028, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 ; Conference date: 13-05-2024 Through 17-05-2024).
On this website: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation (ICRA’24)
learning2home-icra24-flightmare_unity github.com/tudelft/learning2home-icra24-flightmare_unity
Michiel V.M. Firlefyn, Jesse J. Hagenaars, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation.
In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024, pp. 6022–6028, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 ; Conference date: 13-05-2024 Through 17-05-2024).
On this website: Direct learning of home vector direction for insect-inspired robot navigation (ICRA’24)
neuromorphic_att_est_and_control github.com/tudelft/neuromorphic_att_est_and_control
S. Stroobants, C. De Wagter, G. C.H.E. De Croon: Neuromorphic Attitude Estimation and Control.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 5, 2025, ISSN: 2377-3766, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
2023
idnet github.com/tudelft/idnet
Yilun Wu, Federico Paredes-Vallés, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Lightweight Event-based Optical Flow Estimation via Iterative Deblurring.
In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024, pp. 14708–14715, IEEE, United States, 2024, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 ; Conference date: 13-05-2024 Through 17-05-2024).
nanoflownet github.com/tudelft/nanoflownet
Rik J. Bouwmeester, Federico Paredes-Valles, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: NanoFlowNet: Real-time Dense Optical Flow on a Nano Quadcopter.
In: Proceedings - ICRA 2023, pp. 1996–2003, IEEE, United States, 2023, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023 ; Conference date: 29-05-2023 Through 02-06-2023).
optimal_quad_control_RL github.com/tudelft/optimal_quad_control_RL
Robin Ferede, Till Blaha, Erin Lucassen, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: One Net to Rule Them All: Domain Randomization in Quadcopter Racing Across Different Platforms.
In: Ott, Christian; Admoni, Henny; Behnke, Sven; Bogdan, Stjepan; Bolopion, Aude; Choi, Youngjin; Ficuciello, Fanny; Gans, Nicholas; Gosselin, Clement; Harada, Kensuke; Kayacan, Erdal; Kim, H. Jin; Leutenegger, Stefan; Liu, Zhe; Maiolino, Perla; Marques, Lino; Matsubara, Takamitsu; Mavromatti, Anastasia; Minor, Mark; O'Kane, Jason; Park, Hae Won; Park, Hae-Won; Rekleitis, Ioannis; Renda, Federico; Ricci, Elisa; Riek, Laurel D.; Sabattini, Lorenzo; Shen, Shaojie; Sun, Yu; Wieber, Pierre-Brice; Yamane, Katsu; Yu, Jingjin (Ed.): 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025, pp. 6357–6363, IEEE, United States, 2025, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.; 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025 ; Conference date: 19-05-2025 Through 23-05-2025).
Robin Ferede, Guido de Croon, Christophe De Wagter, Dario Izzo: End-to-end neural network based optimal quadcopter control.
In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 172, 2024, ISSN: 0921-8890, (Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Space Agency.This research was co-funded under the Discovery programme of, and funded by, the European Space Agency. Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Space Agency . Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors).
taming_event_flow github.com/tudelft/taming_event_flow
Federico Paredes-Vallés, Kirk Y.W. Scheper, Christope De Wagter, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Taming Contrast Maximization for Learning Sequential, Low-latency, Event-based Optical Flow.
In: Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, pp. 9661–9671, IEEE, United States, 2023, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023 ; Conference date: 02-10-2023 Through 06-10-2023).
On this website: Taming Contrast Maximization for Learning Sequential, Low-latency, Event-based Optical Flow
2022
AvoidBench github.com/tudelft/AvoidBench
Hang Yu, Guido C.H.E. De Croon, Christophe De Wagter: AvoidBench: A high-fidelity vision-based obstacle avoidance benchmarking suite for multi-rotors.
In: Proceedings - ICRA 2023, pp. 9183–9189, IEEE, United States, 2023, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023 ; Conference date: 29-05-2023 Through 02-06-2023).
On this website: AvoidBench @ ICRA 2023
gas-seeking-gui github.com/tudelft/gas-seeking-gui
Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Shushuai Li, Javier Burgues, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments.
In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, pp. 9099–9106, IEEE, United States, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-1715-0, (2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ; Conference date: 27-09-2021 Through 01-10-2021).
NavDataset github.com/tudelft/NavDataset
Jan K.N. Verheyen, Julien Dupeyroux, Guido C.H.E.de Croon: A Novel Multi-vision Sensor Dataset for Insect-Inspired Outdoor Autonomous Navigation.
In: Hunt, Alexander; Vouloutsi, Vasiliki; Moses, Kenneth; Quinn, Roger; Mura, Anna; Prescott, Tony; Verschure, Paul F. (Ed.): Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - 11th International Conference, Living Machines 2022, Proceedings, pp. 279–291, Springer, 2022, ISBN: 9783031204692, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 11th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2022 ; Conference date: 19-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022).
risk-sensitive-rl github.com/tudelft/risk-sensitive-rl
Cheng Liu, Erik Jan Van Kampen, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Adaptive Risk-Tendency: Nano Drone Navigation in Cluttered Environments with Distributional Reinforcement Learning.
In: Proceedings - ICRA 2023, pp. 7198–7204, IEEE, United States, 2023, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023 ; Conference date: 29-05-2023 Through 02-06-2023).
2021
AutoGDM github.com/tudelft/AutoGDM
Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Shushuai Li, Javier Burgues, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments.
In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, pp. 9099–9106, IEEE, United States, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-1715-0, (2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ; Conference date: 27-09-2021 Through 01-10-2021).
blimp_snn github.com/tudelft/blimp_snn
M. Gonzalez Alvarez, J.J.G. Dupeyroux, Federico Corradi, G.C.H.E. de Croon: Evolved neuromorphic radar-based altitude controller for an autonomous open-source blimp.
In: Pappas, George J.; Kumar, Vijay (Ed.): 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022, pp. 85–90, 2022, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. ; 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ICRA 2022 ; Conference date: 23-05-2022 Through 27-05-2022).
faith github.com/tudelft/faith
ODA_Dataset github.com/tudelft/ODA_Dataset
Julien Dupeyroux, Raoul Dinaux, Nikhil Wessendorp, Guido De Croon: A Novel Obstacle Detection and Avoidance Dataset for Drones.
In: Proceedings of System Engineering for Constrained Embedded Systems - DroneSE, pp. 8–13, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2022, (2022 Workshop on System Engineering for Constrained Embedded Systems - Drone Systems Engineering and Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools, DroneSE and RAPIDO 2022 - Presented at HiPEAC 2022 Conference ; Conference date: 20-06-2022 Through 22-06-2022).
PoseNet_Planar github.com/tudelft/PoseNet_Planar
Yingfu Xu, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: CNN-based Ego-Motion Estimation for Fast MAV Maneuvers.
In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021, pp. 7606–7612, IEEE, United States, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-7281-9078-5, (ICRA 2021 : IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ; Conference date: 30-05-2021 Through 05-06-2021).
sniffy-bug github.com/tudelft/sniffy-bug
Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Shushuai Li, Javier Burgues, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments.
In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, pp. 9099–9106, IEEE, United States, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-1715-0, (2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ; Conference date: 27-09-2021 Through 01-10-2021).
2020
loihi github.com/tudelft/loihi
Julien Dupeyroux, Jesse J. Hagenaars, Federico Paredes-Vallés, Guido C.H.E. de Croon: Neuromorphic control for optic-flow-based landing of MAVs using the Loihi processor.
In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021, pp. 96–102, IEEE, United States, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-7281-9078-5, (ICRA 2021 : IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ; Conference date: 30-05-2021 Through 05-06-2021).
On this website: Neuromorphic control for optic-flow-based landings of MAVs using the Loihi processor
multi-robot-localization github.com/shushuai3/multi-robot-localization
Shushuai Li, Feng Shan, Jiangpeng Liu, Mario Coppola, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Onboard Ranging-based Relative Localization and Stability for Lightweight Aerial Swarms.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 10066–10073, 2025, ISSN: 2377-3766, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
rovio2 github.com/tudelft/rovio2
S. A. Bahnam, C. De Wagter, G. C.H.E. De Croon: Improving the Computational Efficiency of ROVIO.
In: Unmanned Systems, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 589–598, 2024, ISSN: 2301-3850, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
2019
cf_onboard_swarm github.com/shushuai3/cf_onboard_swarm
Shushuai Li, Feng Shan, Jiangpeng Liu, Mario Coppola, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C.H.E. De Croon: Onboard Ranging-based Relative Localization and Stability for Lightweight Aerial Swarms.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 10066–10073, 2025, ISSN: 2377-3766, (Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.).
2018
cuSNN github.com/tudelft/cuSNN
On this website: cuSNN
2017
2016
2015
first_release_OF_slope_estimation mavlab.tudelft.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/first_release_OF_slope_estimation.zip
GCHE de Croon, HW Ho, C de Wagter, E van Kampen, BDW Remes, QP Chu: Optic-flow based slope estimation for autonomous landing.
In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 5/2013, no. 4, pp. 287–297, 2013, ISSN: 1756-8293.
GCHE de Croon, HW Ho, C de Wagter, E van Kampen, BDW Remes, QP Chu: Optic-flow based slope estimation for autonomous landing.
In: Moschetta, JM (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition, pp. 1–10, IMAV, 2013, (The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition ; Conference date: 17-09-2013 Through 20-09-2013).
On this website: Optical Flow based Slope Estimation
2010