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The RTE-UPMC research chair "Autonomous mini-UAVs" was launched on September 1st, 2011. The goal of this chair is to improve the capacities of mini-UAVs for surveillance or inspection applications (power-lines, electric towers, bridges, etc). The chair is funded for five years by a sponsorship of the french company RTE which is in charge of maintaning the French electricity network. Sponsorship of the chair is open to other partners via the "Fondation UPMC".
The research activity focuses on improving the autonomy of mini-drones and providing assistance to the pilot, in applications that can be fully-autonomous or tele-operated. Autonomy is achieved through the use of embarked sensors (IMUs, cameras, lasers, etc), the onboard data-processing of the sensor data, and the design of efficient control algorithms. The chair also aims at improving the energetic autonomy of mini-UAVs, e.g. via the aerodynamic design and optimization of new flying vehicles.
This research is conducted within the ISIR lab of UPMC. ISIR (Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics) is a robotics research lab associated with UPMC and CNRS.
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