Applications, products and market'; Regulation, privacy, safety issues'; Refresher of aerodynamic principles relevant for drone design and analysis; Multicopters; Fixed Wings; Flapping Wings; Hardware Components and Integration (motor, battery, frame, materials, autopilots, modeling); Communication; State estimation; Control methods (rate and attitude control, velocity control); Perception and navigation (way-point navigation, take-off and landing); Navigation, SLAM methods, Vision-based Flight, Aerial Swarms; Regulations; software exercise with PX4 autopilot; hardware exercise with real mini-drones.
- Professor: Dario Floreano
- Teacher: Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski
- Teacher: Matteo Macchini
- Teacher: Fabrizio Schiano
- Teacher: Fabian Maximilian Schilling
- Teacher: Enrica Soria
- Teacher: William John Stewart
- Teacher: Valentin Wüest