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Introduction

The BioMAV team of the Radboud University Nijmegen participated in the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition (IMAV2011) in 't Harde, the Netherlands. The task of the competition was have a MAV autonomously fly 8-shaped figures around two poles in an indoor environment. A Parrot AR.Drone was used as flying platform. The team used biologically inspired algorithms to complete the task of flying 8-shaped figures. The code used to control the drone is published here on github.

Tutorials

1. Tutorial: Drone flight procedure

Information

The BioMAV project consists of three components:

1. Simulator / Groundstation
2. Vision
3. Behavior

Publication

The biologically inspired approach used in the BioMAV project was based on research we did on the effectiveness and usability of this approach. Our paper can be found here: BioMAV: bio-inspired intelligence for autonomous flight

Gerke, P. K., Langevoort, J., Lagarde, S., Bax, L., Grootswagers, T., Drenth, R.-J., Slieker, V., Vuurpijl, L., Haselager, P., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I. van Otterlo, M., & de Croon, G. (2011, September). Biomav: bio-inspired intelligence for autonomous flight. In Proceedings of the international micro air vehicle conference and flight competitions 2011.

Links

The official BioMAV website/blog: BioMAV.nl

The IMAV2011 website: imav2011.org

Video of our drone autonomously flying three 8-shaped figures: youtube.com