Drones.md

Drones projects:

	Multi-UAV Path Planning for Urban Air Mobility Develop a path planning algorithm for multiple drones flying in an urban environment. Impact: Contribute to advancing drone applications in UAM and revolutionizing the logistic industry. Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Robotics, Multi-agent System, Optimization, Sensor Fusion and Tracking, UAV, Modeling and Simulation
	Energy-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Multirotor Drones Develop a trajectory planning for multirotor drones that minimizes energy consumption. Impact: Increase mission time of multirotor drones. Expertise gained: Drones, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Electrification, Modeling and Simulation, Optimization, UAV
	Reinforcement Learning Based Fault Tolerant Control of a Quadrotor Develop a fault-tolerant controller for a quadcopter using model-based reinforcement learning. Impact: Improve safety of multi-rotor drones Expertise gained: Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Control, Reinforcement Learning, UAV
	Visual - Inertial Odometry for a Minidrone Design and implement a visual/visual-inertial odometry system using onboard camera for a Minidrone. Impact: Advance aerial vehicle control in contracted spaces with unforeseen environment conditions. Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Drones, Robotics, Aerospace, Control, Image Processing, Low-cost Hardware, Modeling and Simulation, Signal Processing, State Estimation, UAV
	Vibration Detection and Rejection from IMU Data Remove vibration signals from inertial measurement units. Impact: Improve navigation systems by making them robust against vibrations. Expertise gained: Drones, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Modeling and Simulation, Sensor Fusion and Tracking, State Estimation, Signal Processing
	Aggressive Maneuver Stabilization for a Minidrone Design a controller to enable a micro aerial vehicle to stabilize in the scenario of an external aggressive disturbance. Impact: Contribute to advancements in aerial vehicle control in contracted spaces with unforeseen environment conditions. Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Robotics, Aerospace, Low-cost Hardware, Modeling and Simulation, State Estimation, UAV, Control
	Flight Controller Design and Hardware Deployment Build a mini drone and use the PX4 Hardware Support package to design the flight controller using Simulink. Impact: Expedite UAV design and assembly with model-based design. Expertise gained: Drones, Autonomous Vehicles, Control, Low-cost Hardware, UAV
	Robust Visual SLAM Using MATLAB Mobile Sensor Streaming Perform robust visual SLAM using MATLAB Mobile sensor streaming Impact: Enable visual SLAM from streaming sensors and extend the state-of-art in real-time visual SLAM algorithms. Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Drones, Robotics, Automotive, AUV, Mobile Robots, Manipulators, Humanoid, UAV, UGV
	Deep Learning for UAV Infrastructure Inspection Automate the process of infrastructure inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles and deep learning. Impact: Enhance safety and speed of infrastructure inspection across a wide range of industries. Expertise gained: Computer Vision, Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, UAV, SLAM, Deep Learning
	Selection of Mechanical Actuators Using Simulation-Based Analysis Help accelerate the design and development of autonomous systems by providing a framework for mechanical actuators analysis and selection. Impact: Help evaluate and select actuation systems across multiple industries (robotic, automotive, manufacturing, aerospace) and help designers come up with novel actuation solutions. Expertise gained: Drones, Robotics, Control, Cyber-physical Systems, Electrification, Humanoid, Manipulators, Modeling and Simulation
	Rotor-Flying Manipulator Simulation Rotor-flying manipulation will change the future of aerial transportation and manipulation in construction and hazardous environments. Take robotics manipulation to the next level with an autonomous UAV. Impact: Transform the field of robot manipulation. Expertise gained: Drones, Robotics, Manipulators, Modeling and Simulation, UAV