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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

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza

The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...

2019

Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Drones are rapidly becoming an affordable and often faster solution for parcel delivery than terrestrial vehicles. Existing transportation drones and software infrastructures are mostly designed by logistics companies for trained users and dedicated infras ...

2018

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

In a team of autonomous drones, individual knowledge about the relative location of teammates is essential. Existing relative positioning solutions for teams of small drones mostly rely on external systems such as motion tracking cameras or GPS satellites ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

The ability to fly at low altitude while actively avoiding collisions with the terrain and objects such as trees and buildings is a great challenge for small unmanned aircraft. This paper builds on top of a control strategy called optiPilot whereby a serie ...

2010

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

The ability to fly at low altitude while actively avoiding collisions with the terrain and other objects is a great challenge for small unmanned aircraft. This paper builds on top of a control strategy called optiPilot whereby a series of optic-flow detect ...

IEEE2010

Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

Autonomous flight in confined or cluttered environments such as houses or urban canyons requires high manoeuvrability, fast mapping from sensors to actuators and very limited overall system weight. Although flying animals are well capable of solving this p ...

Springer Verlag2008

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Timothy Stirling, James Roberts

This paper presents a Miniature Aerial Vehicle (MAV) capable of hands-off autonomous operation within indoor environments. Our prototype is a Quadrotor weighing approximately 600g, with a diameter of 550mm, which carries the necessary electronics for stabi ...

2007

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Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight

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Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight