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                    Aerial robots

                    Aerial robots

                    The key research area Flying Robots covers several domains of the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center – Aeronautics, Space, Robotics, and Optical Information Systems – in order to exploit synergies in the development of robotics technologies for autonomous flying platforms. The spectrum of our work ranges from low-level control and sensor data processing to mission planning and execution.

                    Ardea

                    Ardea is a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) that has been developed from the ground up at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. Two major research directions for MAVs are autonomous exploration of unknown environments and cooperation with emergency teams in disaster situations.

                    HABLEG

                    HABLEG is a solar powered high altitude aircraft. Due to the high altitude and the almost infinite mission duration, such platforms are also denoted as High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) or High Altitude Platforms (HAP).

                    Penguin

                    Penguin BE, the unmanned research aircraft, is used by the flight robotics group to test-flight new robotic technologies. It was acquired in 2013 and has since completed about 20 flight campaigns.

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                    • Flying robots brochure 2016 (2.8 MB)
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