Publications

Whereas insects seem to control their flight effortlessly with the help of optical flow, robots that attempt to do the same run into problems. We propose as a solution a learning process that allows robots to see distances by means of visual appearance (colors, textures, shapes). Would it be possible that insects do the same?

The full paper can be found here (view-only article link: here).

The article is featured on the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence. Cover reprinted by permission from Springer Nature.

G.C.H.E. de Croon, C. De Wagter, T. Seidl: Enhancing optical-flow-based control by learning visual appearance cues for flying robots. In: Nature Machine Intelligence, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021.
 

Science Robotics paper

Our recent paper in Science Robotics presents the first swarm of tiny robots that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves. No map, no memory, and no GPS! The full paper can be found here.

K N McGuire, C De Wagter, K Tuyls, H J Kappen, G C H E de Croon: Minimal navigation solution for a swarm of tiny flying robots to explore an unknown environment. In: Science Robotics, vol. 4, no. 35, 2019.

Delfly Book

Our book about the DelFly has been published! The book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping-wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence.

G C H E de Croon, Mustafa Percin, B D W Remes, Rick Ruijsink, C De Wagter: The DelFly - Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot. Springer Netherlands, 2016, ISBN: 978-94-017-9207-3.

Science paper

The Delfly Nimble was featured on the cover of Science Magazine in September 2018.

Matěj Karásek, Florian T Muijres, Christophe De Wagter, Bart D W Remes, Guido C H E de Croon: A tailless aerial robotic flapper reveals that flies use torque coupling in rapid banked turns. In: Science, vol. 361, no. 6407, pp. 1089–1094, 2018, ISSN: 0036-8075.

 

 

 

All publications

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2016

Masters Theses

B. J. M. M. Slinger

Attitude Control of a Small Helicopter UAV using Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2016, (Remes, B.D.W. (mentor)).

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G. J. J. Van Dalen

Visual Homing for Micro Aerial Vehicles using Scene Familiarity (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2016, (De Croon, G.C.H.E. (mentor)).

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C. W. M. Nous

Performance Evaluation in Obstacle Avoidance (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2016, (De Croon, G.C.H.E. (mentor)).

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Y. S. Janssen

Reinforcement Learning Policy Approximation by Behavior Trees: using Genetic Algoritms (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2016, (Scheper, K.Y.W. (mentor)).

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Miscellaneous

Kevin van Hecke; Guido de Croon; Laurens van der Maaten; Daniel Hennes; Dario Izzo

Persistent self-supervised learning principle: from stereo to monocular vision for obstacle avoidance (Miscellaneous)

2016.

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Mario Coppola; Kimberly McGuire; Kirk Y. W. Scheper; Guido C. H. E. Croon

On-board Communication-based Relative Localization for Collision Avoidance in Micro Air Vehicle teams (Miscellaneous)

2016.

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PhD Theses

Joao Aguiar Vieira Caetano

Model identification of a flapping wing micro aerial vehicle (PhD Thesis)

2016.

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2015

Journal Articles

GCHE de Croon; D Alazard; D Izzo

Controlling spacecraft landings with constantly and exponentially decreasing time-to-contact (Journal Article)

In: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1241–1252, 2015, ISSN: 0018-9251.

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V Casseau; GCHE de Croon; D Izzo; C Pandolfi

Morphologic and aerodynamic considerations regarding the plumed seeds of tragopogon pratensis and their implications for seed dispersal (Journal Article)

In: PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1–17, 2015, ISSN: 1932-6203.

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J A Koopmans; S Tijmons; C De Wagter; G C H E de Croon

Passively Stable Flapping Flight From Hover to Fast Forward Through Shift in Wing Position (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 7, no. 4, 2015, ISBN: 10.1260/1756-8293.7.4.407.

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W B Tay; S Deng; B W van Oudheusden; H Bijl

Validation of immersed boundary method for the numerical simulation of flapping wing flight (Journal Article)

In: Computers & Fluids, vol. 115, pp. 226-242, 2015.

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W B Tay; B W van Oudheusden; H Bijl

Numerical simulation of a flapping four-wing micro-aerial vehicle (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Fluids and Structures, vol. 55, pp. 237-261, 2015.

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JV Caetano; M Percin; BW van Oudheusden; B Remes; C de Wagter; GCHE de Croon; CC de Visser

Error analysis and assessment of unsteady forces acting on a flapping wing micro air vehicle: free flight versus wind-tunnel experimental methods (Journal Article)

In: Bioinspiration & biomimetics, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 056004, 2015.

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JV Caetano; MB Weehuizen; CC De Visser; GCHE De Croon; M Mulder

Rigid-body kinematics versus flapping kinematics of a flapping wing micro air vehicle (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2257–2269, 2015.

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Inproceedings

HW Ho; C de Wagter; BDW Remes; GCHE de Croon

Optical flow for self-supervised learning of obstacle appearance (Inproceedings)

In: Zhang, J; Knoll, A (Ed.): Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS2015), pp. 1–7, IEEE Society, 2015, (International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS2015), Hamburg, Germany ; Conference date: 28-09-2015 Through 02-10-2015).

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J L Verboom; S Tijmons; C De Wagter; B Remes; R Babuska; G C H E de Croon

Attitude and altitude estimation and control on board a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (Inproceedings)

In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5846–5851, IEEE, 2015.

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Mustafa Per c c; Bas van Oudheusden; Bart Remes

Force generation and wing deformation characteristics of the textquoterightDelFly IItextquoteright MAV in hovering flight conditions (Inproceedings)

In: International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition, 2015, (International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition 2015, IMAV 2015 ; Conference date: 15-09-2015 Through 18-09-2015).

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JV Aguiar Vieira Caetano; CC de Visser; GCHE de Croon; M Mulder

Effects of eigenmodes, forward velocity and flapping frequency in force generation mechanisms of a flapping-wing mav (Inproceedings)

In: Riyanto, B; Budiyono, A (Ed.): Proceedings of the international conference on intelligent unmanned systems, pp. 1–6, s.n., 2015, (International conference on intelligent unmanned systems, ICIUS 2015, Bali, Indonesia ; Conference date: 26-08-2015 Through 29-08-2015).

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S Deng; T Xiao; M Percin; BW van Oudheusden; H Bijl; BDW Remes

Numerical simulation of an X-wing flapping wing MAV by means of a deforming overset grid method (Inproceedings)

In: s.n., (Ed.): Proceedings of the 22nd AIAA computational fluid dynamics conference, pp. 1–12, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), United States, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-62410-366-7, (harvest AIAA 2015-2615; 22nd AIAA computational fluid dynamics conference, Dallas, USA ; Conference date: 22-06-2015 Through 26-06-2015).

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LNC Sikkel; EJJ Smeur; GCHE de Croon; BDW Remes; QP Chu

Robust rotorcraft control using an incremental sliding mode controller (Inproceedings)

In: Bordeneuve-Guibe, J; Drouin, A; Roos, C (Ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd CEAS specialist conference on guidance, navigation and control, pp. 1–17, Springer, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-319-17517-1, (3rd CEAS specialist conference on guidance, navigation and control, Toulouse, France ; Conference date: 13-04-2015 Through 15-04-2015).

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J V Caetano; S F Armanini; De C C Visser; De G C H E Croon; M Mulder

Data-Informed Quasi-Steady Aerodynamic Model of a Clap-and-Fling Flapping Wing MAV (Inproceedings)

In: Int. conf. on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS), Bali, Indonesia, 2015.

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SF Armanini; M Polak; JE Gautrey; A Lucas; JF Whidborne

Decision-making for unmanned flight in icing conditions (Inproceedings)

In: Abbink, F; Hermans, C (Ed.): Proceedings of the 5th CEAS air and space conference, CEAS 2015, pp. 1–15, NVvL, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-906913-20-5, (5th CEAS air and space conference, CEAS 2015 ; Conference date: 07-09-2015 Through 11-09-2015).

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Sophie F Armanini; C C de Visser; G C H E de Croon

Black-box LTI modelling of flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle dynamics (Inproceedings)

In: AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Virginia, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-62410-340-7.

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C Fuchs; C Borst; GCHE Croon; MM Paassen; M Mulder

An ecological approach to the supervisory control of UAV swarms (Inproceedings)

In: Fumeaux, C; Sanagavarapu, A (Ed.): Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on aviation psychology, ISAP2015, pp. 177–182, Wright State University, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-5108-0408-1, (18th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, ISAP2015 ; Conference date: 04-05-2015 Through 07-05-2015).

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Masters Theses

S. Van Lochem

Ecological Interface Design for Collaboration of Multiple UAVs in Remote Areas (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2015, (Borst, C. (mentor); De Croon, G.C.H.E. (mentor); Mulder, M. (mentor); Van Paassen, M.M. (mentor)).

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K. G. Van Hecke

Persistent self-supervised learning principle: Study and demonstration on flying robots (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2015, (De Croon, G.C.H.E. (mentor); Van der Maaten, L.J.P. (mentor); Izzo, D. (mentor); Hennes, D. (mentor)).

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T. Szabó

Autonomous Collision Avoidance for Swarms of MAVs: Based solely on RSSI measurements (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2015, (Mulder, J.A. (mentor); de Croon, G.C.H.E. (mentor); de Visser, C.C. (mentor); Scheper, K.Y.W. (mentor); Verhoeven, C.J.M. (mentor)).

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M Paz Gomes Verdugo

Event-based Optical Flow using a Dynamic Vision Sensor for MAV Landing (Masters Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL, 2015.

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Miscellaneous

G C H E de Croon

Distance estimation with efference copies and optical flow maneuvers: a stability-based strategy (Miscellaneous)

2015.

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PhD Theses

M Percin

Aerodynamic mechanisms of flapping flight (PhD Thesis)

Delft University of Technology, 2015, ISBN: 9789462598430, (embargo 31-12-2016).

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2014

Journal Articles

C Fuchs; C Borst; GCHE de Croon; MM van Paassen; M Mulder

An Ecological Approach to the Supervisory Control of UAV Swarms (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 211–229, 2014, ISSN: 1756-8293.

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D Izzo; LF Simoes; GCHE de Croon

An evolutionary robotics approach for the distributed control of satellite formations (Journal Article)

In: Evolutionary Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 107–118, 2014, ISSN: 1864-5909.

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C De Wagter; S Tijmons; B D W Remes; G C H E de Croon

Autonomous Flight of a 20-gram Flapping Wing MAV with a 4-gram Onboard Stereo Vision System (Journal Article)

In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 4982–4987, 2014, ISSN: 10504729.

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M Percin; BW van Oudheusden; HE Eisma; BDW Remes

Three-dimensional vortex wake structure of a flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle in forward flight configuration (Journal Article)

In: Experiments in Fluids, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 1–16, 2014.

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Shuanghou Deng; Mustafa Percin; Bas van Oudheusden; Bart Remes; Hester Bijl

Experimental investigation on the aerodynamics of a bio-inspired flexible flapping wing micro air vehicle (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 105–115, 2014.

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TA Noyon; WB Tay; BW Van Oudheusden; H Bijl

Effect of chordwise deformation on unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms in hovering flapping flight (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 265–277, 2014.

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W B Tay; Van B W Oudheusden; H Bijl

Numerical simulation of X-wing type biplane flapping wings in 3D using the immersed boundary method (Journal Article)

In: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 36001, 2014, ISSN: 1748-3190.

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T Gillebaart; WB Tay; AH van Zuijlen; H Bijl

A modified ALE method for fluid flows around bodies moving in close proximity (Journal Article)

In: Computers & Structures, vol. 145, pp. 1–11, 2014.

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Inproceedings

S F Armanini; J L Verboom; G C H E de Croon; C C de Visser

Determination of trim curves for a flapping-wing MAV (Inproceedings)

In: IMAV 2014: International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition 2014, Delft, The Netherlands, August 12-15, 2014, pp. 212–217, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2014.

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J V Caetano; M Percin; C C de Visser; B van Oudheusden; G C H E de Croon; C De Wagter; B D W Remes; M Mulder

Tethered vs. free flight force determination of the DelFly II Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (Inproceedings)

In: 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 942–948, IEEE, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4799-2376-2.

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EJJ Smeur; QP Chu; GCHE de Croon; BDW Remes; C de Wagter; E van der Horst

Modelling of a Hybrid UAV Using Test Flight Data (Inproceedings)

In: de Croon, GCHE; van Kampen, E; de Wagter, C; de Visser, CC (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition 2014, pp. 196–203, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2014, (The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition 2014 ; Conference date: 12-08-2014 Through 15-08-2014).

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S Tijmons; GCHE de Croon; BDW Remes; C de Wagter; HM Ruijsink; EJ van Kampen; QP Chu

Off-board processing of Stereo Vision images for Obstacle Avoidance on a flapping Wing MAV (Inproceedings)

In: s.n., (Ed.): Proceedings of the PEGASUS - AIAA Student Conference, pp. 1–16, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), United States, 2014, (The PEGASUS - AIAA Student Conference ; Conference date: 23-04-2014 Through 25-04-2014).

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BDW Remes; P Esden-Tempski; F van Tienen; EJJ Smeur; C de Wagter; GCHE de Croon

Lisa-S 2.8g autopilot for GPS-based flight of MAVs (Inproceedings)

In: Remes, BDW; Esden-Tempski, P; van Tienen, F; Smeur, EJJ; de wagter, C; de Croon, GCHE (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Micro Air Vehicle conference and competitions, pp. 280–285, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2014, (The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competitions ; Conference date: 12-08-2014 Through 15-08-2014).

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A Tenaglia; M Percin; BW van Oudheusden; S Deng; BDW Remes

Vortex Formation and Force Generation Mechanisms of the DelFly II in Hovering Flight (Inproceedings)

In: s.n., (Ed.): Proceedings of the International micro air vehicle conference and competition IMAV 2014, pp. 204–211, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2014, (2014 International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition (IMAV 2014) ; Conference date: 12-08-2014 Through 15-08-2014).

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C Fuchs; C Borst; GCHE de Croon; MM van Paassen; M Mulder

An Ecological Approach to the Supervisory Control of UAV Swarms (Inproceedings)

In: de Croon, GCHE (Ed.): Proceedings of the international Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competitions, pp. 188–195, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2014, (The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competitions ; Conference date: 12-08-2014 Through 15-08-2014).

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GCHE de Croon; PK Gerke; IG Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper

Crowdsourcing as a Methodology to Obtain Large and Varied Robotic Data Sets (Inproceedings)

In: s.n., (Ed.): Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), pp. 1595–1600, IEEE Society, 2014, (IROS 2014: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ; Conference date: 14-09-2014 Through 18-09-2014).

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S Deng; M Percin; BW van Oudheusden; BDW Remes; A Tenaglia

Force and flowfield measurements of a bio-inspired flapping MAV `DelFly Micro¿. (Inproceedings)

In: s.n., (Ed.): AIAA, pp. 1–10, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), United States, 2014, ISBN: 2014-2564.

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J V Caetano; M B Weehuizen; C C de Visser; G C H E de Croon; C de Wagter; B Remes; M Mulder

Rigid vs. Flapping: The Effects of Kinematic Formulations in Force Determination of a Free Flying Flapping WIng Micro Air Vehicle (Inproceedings)

In: International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, pp. 949–959, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Orlando, US-FL, 2014.

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S Deng; M Percin; B W van Oudheusden; B D W Remes; A Tenaglia

Force and flow field measurements of a bio-inspired flapping-wing MAV 'Delfly Micro' in hovering flight (Inproceedings)

In: 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 2014, ISBN: 9781624102882.

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Masters Theses

Tijs Noyon

The effect of wing deformation on unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms in hovering flapping flight: Numerical study using a three-dimensional immersed boundary method (Masters Thesis)

TU Delft Aerospace Engineering, 2014, (Bijl, Hester (mentor); van Oudheusden, Bas (mentor); Tay, Weebeng (mentor); de Wagter, Christophe (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)).

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