May
IONLAB has a FUSION paper awarded the Best Paper Award in the CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control 2026 (EuroGNC 2026) in Madrid, Spani. Congrats Maciej Michalow(PhD)!!
Prof Lustosa suffers a stroke🤕🥺 and lab activities are halted.
April
IONLAB has a HALION paper accepted in the upcoming CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control 2024 (EuroGNC 2024) in Bristol, UK. Congrats Rajashree (Master) and Inês (Master)!!
FUSION flew for the very first time!! Congrats Bartosz (Master) and João (Master) for this remarkable feat!! Check the flight video here.
All IONLAB Gen1 Master Students successfully defended their Research Projects, and are leaving for their internships. IONLAB will miss you!! 🥹 Don't forget to drop by every now and then to share with us your future projects!
March
Elena (Master) and Krishna (Master) feature a column on the ISAE-SUPAERO website on their ICRA 2024 paper accomplishment. Check their MAVION paper video here.
IONLAB has two HALION papers accepted in the upcoming International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2024 (IFASD 2024) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Inês (Master) and Rajashree (Master) presented in an informal workshop on Very Flexible Aircraft Simulation and Visualization using Unreal Engine, which was held in partnership with the University of Michigan's Active Aeroelasticity and Structures Research Laboratory (A2SRL).
Prof. Lustosa lectures drone embedded intelligence in the École Polytechnique's Executive Master.
February
Elena (Master) and Krishna (Master) are granted an ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation scholarship for their upcoming ICRA 2024 paper presentation. Thanks ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation! 🥹 Check their MAVION paper video here.
Krishna (Master) has been invited to undergo her internship at Dronisos, a drone light show company. Congrats, Krishna! Their joyful mission seems perfect for you.
Francisco (PhD) and Prof. Lustosa visit Delair headquarters in Toulouse to learn about their drone manufacturing operations. Thanks, Delair, for hosting us!
January
IONLAB joins forces with Prof. Drougard (ISAE-SUPAERO) to manufacture a vision-based automatic landing fixed-wing aircraft demonstrator using artificial intelligence techniques.
Carmelo (Master) presents a paper at Scitech AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition 2024 in Orlando, USA.
IONLAB visits Dron'Aero and has a lovely time in their new headquarters at Toulouse Francazal Airport.
Our IONLAB hackathon night yielded an autonomous interoffice agent!! Check it out here. This experience confirms our fear of magnetometer outputs. Do you also suffer from magnetometer anxiety?!
December
Welcome new IONLAB Master students: Adrian Capelle-Dominguez, Andre Timofeyev, Apoorva Busunur-Mallikarjuna, Carmelo Simon-Soria, Javed Patan, Nil Rius-Fortuny, Pietro Bertolin, Vandana Dharmangadan-Sree, Yunfan Lu.
Javed (Master) has advanced to the final phase of the Dassault Drone Competition 2024. Congratulations, Javed! Keep on keeping on!
IONLAB participates in an Urban Aerial Mobility event from Toulouse Métropole, UAM Plazza, Aerospace Valley, with a short lecture from Prof. Lustosa.
Inês (Master), Rajashree (Master), Francisco (PhD), and Maciej (PhD) present their respective works on Flexible Aircraft at a department workshop on Flexible Aircraft.
Prof. Lustosa participates in a Deep Operation Simulation with the French 11th Parachute Brigade and discusses the tactical use of robots and drones in Deep Operations in the Battlefield.
Prof. Lustosa participates in a CNES StratoDrone Project consulting meeting.
Have a Merry IONLAB Christmas with our Pixhawk-themed Holiday Video Card!! Check it out here. 🎄🧑🎄
November
Francisco (PhD), Rajashree (Master) and Prof. Lustosa demonstrate the HALION wing shape estimator technology in the Forum Innovation Defense 2023 in Paris with a real-time demonstrator mock-up.
Welcome new IONLAB PhD candidate: Maciej Michalow. We are very excited to have you with us!!
Prof. Lustosa joins the International Micro Air Vehicles (IMAV) Conference and Competition technical committee.
Elena (Master) has been invited to intern at Airbus Defense and Space. Congrats Elena!! (And we hope you won't face any more Big Endian - Little Endian demons there!!)
IONLAB website News section is created.