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Pilote automatique

Publications associées (10)

Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

Dario Floreano, William John Stewart, Charalampos Vourtsis, Victor Casas Rochel, Nathan Samuel Müller

Intense winds are a challenge for vertical take-off and landing drones with wings. In particular, in the hovering regime, wings are sensitive to wind currents that can be detrimental to their operational and energetic performances. Tail-sitters are particu ...

2023

Error Augmentation Improves Visuomotor Adaptation during a Full-Body Balance Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Oliver Alan Kannape, Jemina Fasola

Visual amplification of kinematic errors has successfully been applied to improve performance for upper limb movements. In this study, we investigated whether visual error augmentation can promote faster adaptation during a full-body balance task. Healthy ...

IEEE2019

Lake Imaging and Monitoring Aerial Drone

David Andrew Barry, Ludovic Zulliger, Lukas Oliver Hostettler, Jean-Luc Liardon, Karl Johannes Kangur

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included (i) fuselage capable of accommodating an imaging package or other instrumentation, (ii) suitability for over-lake BVLOS author ...

2018

Protection de la fosse de dissipation du barrage de Chancy-Pougny avec prismes en béton

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

La fosse de dissipation à l’aval du barrage de Chancy-Pougny qui fait face à une érosion progressive est l’objet de cette étude. Un modèle physique a été construit à l’échelle 1:55 afin de mieux comprendre les sources de cette érosion. Due à l’asymétrie gé ...

Société hydrotechnique de France2017

Positioning Autonomy of a Fixed-Wing UAV through VDM/INS Integration with Experimental Results

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

In this paper, practical realization of a previously proposed VDM based integrated navigation for UAVs is presented. This method utilizes the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) fed by autopilot control commands as main process model within the navigation filter a ...

2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Severin Leven

Most autopilots of existing Miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles (MUAVs) rely on control architectures that typically use a large number of sensors (gyros, accelerometers, magnetometers, GPS) and a computationally demanding estimation of flight states. As a con ...

IEEE2009

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

Antoine Beyeler

Lightweight micro unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs) capable of autonomous flight in natural and urban environments have a large potential for civil and commercial applications, including environmental monitoring, forest fire monitoring, homeland securi ...

EPFL2009

Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

This present invention describes a novel vision-based control strategy for autonomous cruise flight in possibly cluttered environments such as – but not limited to - cities, forests, valleys, or mountains. ...

2008

Design of an Ultra-Lightweight Autonomous Solar Airplane for Continuous Flight

Roland Siegwart, André Noth

Development of unmanned aerial vehicle has attracted attention of several agencies and university laboratories over the past decade, due to their great potential in military and civilian applications. There are a dozen of commercial autopilots which combin ...

2005