Dr. Roland Tóth, ARNL’s lead researcher, gave a lecture at the Faculty of Technology of the University of Debrecen (DE). His presentation “Learning-assisted navigation and motion control for autonomous quadcopters” was attended by a full house.

Over the past few years, quadcopters have attracted increasing attention in industry and in the research arena due to their exceptional manoeuvrability and versatility. In his lecture, Roland Tóth outlined how autonomous drones can be made to manoeuvre reliably and thereby successfully perform e.g., cargo transport tasks.

The speaker presented recent results on fast-computable route planning methods for quadcopters flying in environments with numerous other flying obstacles. The audience was also shown video footage of real experiments and simulation environments in this respect.

After the lecture, Roland Tóth provided students from the DE Faculty of Technology’s mechatronic engineering department with further insight and useful advice on how to operate their quadcopter in an intelligent manner.

Source: DE.