News
May 14, 2012
Winner of the European Young Researcher Award 2012, sponsored by EU and EuroScience
May 8, 2012
The special issue of Autonomous Robots on "Micro Aerial Vehicles, perception and control", co-edited with Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar, has been published
April 23, 2012
sFly gets a lot of media attention and gets features on IEEE News
The sFly project is over. Check the recent article on IEEE News!
February 1, 2012
Assistant Professor in Human-Oriented Robotics at the University of Zurich
I joint the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the University of Zurich as Assistant Professor. The position is funded by the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics. If you are interested in a Bachelors, Masters, or semester thesis/project in my lab, please contact me.
December 15, 2011
A two-part Tutorial on Visual Odometry in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Together with my colleague Fridrich Fraundorfer at ETH ZUrich, we wrote a two-part tutorial on Visual Odometry. The first part (PDF) appeared in the December issue of the magazine, while the second part (PDF) in the March 2012 issue. Link to the IEEE RAM webpage.
November 2, 2011
Power Point slides and videos of the Autonomous Mobile Robots course at ETH Zurich available
Upon many requests, I decided to make available all the Power Point slides and videos of my last course at ETH ZUrich in Spring 2010, on which my book "An Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots" is based. All the slides and videos can be found here.
July 4-8, 2011
First Summer School on Micro Aerial Vehicles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
I was the organizer of this summer school.
Check the program of the school, slides, and code below
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June 1, 2011
Autonomous Robots journal: Special Issue on Micro-UAV Perception and Control
Together with Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar, I am the guest editor of this special issue of the Autonomous Robots journal on Micro-UAV perception and control. Please find the call for papers here.
May 8, 2011
First International Workshop on "Micro-UAV Perception and Control" at ICRA'11, Shanghai
Together with Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar, I am the organizer of this workshop, which will be held during the ICRA'11 conference in Shanghai. The program of the workshop can be found here.
February 18, 2011
My book "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots", 2nd Edition, MIT Press, is out!
Coauthored with Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh
I was the main author of this second edition to which I dedicated a full year of intense writing and literature research. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.
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All the Power Point slides and videos of the course I gave at ETH Zurich in Spring 2010 can be found here.
January 15, 2011
I moved to Philadelphia, USA, for a second postdoc. I am now at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, with Prof. Vijay Kumar and Kostas Daniilidis
I will be working in the MAST project (Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology) on visual navigation for ground and flying robots.
Check out some of the cool stuff on micro aerial vehicles being done at the GRASP Lab of the University of Pennsylvania!
November-December 2009
Invited Research Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
From November 1, 2009, I spent two months at the MIAS Lab (Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems) in the Department of Modeling and Digital Sciences of Council for Scientific and Industrial Reserach (CSIR), in Pretoria, South Africa.
My reserach focused on structure from motion and visual odometry for an on-road autonomous vehicles and a mine inspection.
During my research stayed I had the pleasure to work with Dr. Simukai Utete, Deon Sabatta, Jonathan Claassens, Fred Senekal, and Natasha Govender.
Most of my book "An Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, 2nd Edition" was written during this stay. I am particularly thankful for this to Deon, Jonathan, and Simukai!
September 17, 2009
2nd place at the European Micro Aerial Vehicle competition with the first purely vision based autonomous helicopter
The European MAV competition, took place in Delft (Netherlands).
The competition consisted in having a small helicopter entering and exiting from small apartment in a fully autonomous manner.
My team, named ETH-Maverick, was the only autonomous team over the 8 participating teams. Furthermore, it was the only team using only a single camera to control the helicopter, whereas all the other teams used remote control.
The autonomy of the helicopter and the use of solely vision impressed the jury and gave us team the 2nd place. We missed the 1sr place because th
e size of the helicopter was a penalizing factor according to the rule used in the competition.
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Septsember 9, 2009
Davide Scaramuzza wins the Robotdalen Scientific Award
Advanced algorithms give him 20,000 Euros in prize money!
The Robotdalen scientific award is the worldwide most prestigious scientific award for PhD theses in the field of Robotics and Automation. It is an annual award that goes to a young scientist in the field of robotics. The award is supported by the European Union, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, ABB, Volvo, and several other companies.
On September 9, 2009, Davide Scaramuzza was announced the winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2009 and received the prize sum of 20,000 Euros for his competition contribution: his doctoral thesis on "Omnidirectional Vision, from Calibration to Robot Motion Estimation". The prize ceremony took place on the annual conference Robotdalen Day in Vasteras, Sweden on September 9th at the presence of the County Governor and many industrial partners.
Congratulations to the other two finalists Mario Prats and Sami Haddadin!
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August 4, 2009
Check our first Vision Based Fully Autonomous Helicopter in Unstructured Environments!