Monday, 21 July⋅12:00 – 1:00pm

Room: 470, Building 405 – 5/7 Grafton Road

* The Monday Midday seminar link to join Zoom meetings is:

https://auckland.zoom.us/j/98461140225

“Closing the Loop on Multirotor UAVs”

The talk will describe a range of studies in the Drone Technology Research Group (DTRG) over the past decade to develop multirotor UAV airframes and flight controllers, motivated by the challenges of wind disturbance and physical interaction. The scope of our work includes novel fully-actuated airframe designs, flight dynamics, rotor aerodynamics, model-based control, and autonomous navigation.

Karl Stol
Karl is the director of the Drone Technology Research Group, and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering with a love of flying. When not teaching control systems or supervising UAV projects, he is flying fixed-wing aircraft and working on his flight instructor rating.