Applications, products and market; Refresher of aerodynamic principles relevant for drone design and analysis; Multicopters; Fixed Wings; Flapping Wings; Hardware Components and Integration (motor, battery, frame, materials, autopilots, software); Communication; State estimation; Control methods (rate and attitude control, velocity control); Perception and navigation (way-point navigation, visual inertial odometry, 3D path planning, bio-inspired vision-based flight); Aerial Swarms; exercises with simulated and real mini-drones; mini-drone project.
- Professor: Dario Floreano
- Teaching Assistants: Benjamin Jarvis
- Teaching Assistants: Simon Jeger
- Teaching Assistants: Hoang Vu Phan
- Teaching Assistants: Charbel Toumieh
- Teaching Assistants: Andrea Vicari
- Teaching Assistants: Julius Wanner
