RESEARCH

Drone Group

DRONE GROUP - OVERVIEW


 

Mission Statement 


"We aims to develop fully autonomous palm-sized drones for industrial and military applications by combining a variety of the state-of-the-art control and sensing technologies." 

 

Research Interests


- Indoor navigation system

- UAV system design

- Multi-agent control

- DRL based UAV control



 

Our detailed Works

 

1. Navigation system


The development of navigation system and sensor fusion algorithms is critical for the effective control of drones in both indoor and outdoor environments. Our approach integrates optical motion capture systems for precise indoor navigation and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for accurate outdoor positioning, ensuring reliable and consistent performance.




2. UAV system design


Multirotor system is widely used in variety of aerial missions. To find a suitable set of multirotor hardware for each mission, an optimization based design method is developed which maximize flight time under flight scenario of the mission. 





 

3. Control algorithm


Recently, quadrotors are required to be more robust and agile for application to sophisticated flights and tasks in confined and complex places. According to those demands, we are developing control algorithms for both single and multi-agent drone systems.





 

4. AI-based UAV/UGV control


Plant control using reinforcement learning is one of the most prominent control methods these days. The sim2real transfer algorithm, which transfers the policies learned in simulation to actual systems, is a core technology in this field. To ensure more robust and precise control performance, we are researching SIM2REAL algorithms and validating them using drone systems.