Small flyer

Current work on micro aerial vehicles (MAV) concentrates on the development of accurate self-estimation and obstacle avoidance methods using vision sensor(s).

• Christel-Loic Tisse

• Oliver Frank
• Jairo Gomez-Escobar

The Small Flyer project is organised around the following major research themes:

• design and calibration of catadioptric omnidirectional (computational) imaging system
• 3D reconstruction methods, stereo-vision and optic-flow algorithms for omnidirectional depth perception, and
• advanced avionic systems using hybrid optical-inertial sensing.

• This project aims at developing and demonstrating innovative visual sensing approaches and technologies to provide a small-flyer (i.e. small flying drone) with the perceptive and motive abilities to move within the real world in the same way as an insect does.
• Further information can be found at:
  http://www-personal.acfr.usyd.edu.au/tisse/smallflyer.htm

• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Grant

• Research - Perception
• Project - Aerospace
• Active - yes