IMRC Team

Team

Wolfgang Hönig

05/2021 - now

Group Leader

Ilaria Cicchetti-Nilsson

05/2021 - now

Administration

Akmaral Moldagalieva

12/2021 - now

PhD student

Khaled Wahba

01/2022 - now

PhD student

Pia Hanfeld

04/2022 - now

External PhD student (CASUS)

Nan Cai

06/2023 - now

Student Assistant

Bojan Derajić

12/2023 - now

External PhD student (Continental)

Max Perschen

06/2024 - now

Student Assistant

Jan Achermann

06/2024 - now

Student Assistant

Lab

Flightspace

02/2024 - now

Lab

Indoor flight space (7 x 4 x 2.75 m) with safety nets and padding all around with two external tracking systems for ground truth (motion capture and LightHouse).

Crazyflie 2.1

2021 - now

Lab

Small (9 cm rotor-to-rotor) and lightweight (29 g) robots with off-the-shelf hardware and fully open-source software. We develop the the ROS2 driver for these robots, called Crazyswarm2.

Thesis Supervision

Dennis Schmidt

06/2023 - now

MS Thesis (Electrical Engineering)

Development of an uncertainty-aware Motion Planner combining Branch MPC with Machine Learning

Eckart Ferdinand Cobo Briesewitz

05/2023 - now

BS Thesis (Computer Science)

Learning-based Multirotor Control Enhancements

Julius Franke

05/2023 - now

MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science)

Motion Primitive Selection for Kinodynamic Motion Planning

Christoph Scherer

02/2023 - now

MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science)

Learning Residual Physics Distributions of Multirotors with Cable-Suspended Payloads

Alumni

Flightspace, 08/2021 - 01/2024 , Lab , Small indoor flight space (3.5 x 3.5 x 2.75 m) with safety nets and padding all around with two external tracking systems for ground truth (motion capture and LightHouse).
Christian Hickstein, 11/2023 - 03/2024 , BS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation for Crazyflie Multirotors
Julien Thévenoz, 11/2023 - 06/2024 , Student Assistant → MSc Student at EPFL
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Keerthana Laxmish, 04/2023 - 10/2023 , MS Thesis (ICT Innovation) , Learning-Based Relative State Estimation for Ultralow-Power Multirotor Teams
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Theo Valentin Kern, 05/2023 - 11/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Engineering) , Long-Horizon Planning of Multirotor Teams for Construction Assembly
Alexander Weingart, 02/2023 - 08/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Science) , Enhancing Sampling Based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Reinforcement Learning Policies
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Maika Krüger, 01/2023 - 08/2023 , MS Thesis (Computer Science) , Safety-Guided Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Applications to Robotic Assisted Surgery using Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Jana Schicke, 11/2022 - 03/2023 , BS Thesis (Computer Science) , Learning-based Multirotor System Model Enhancements
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Dennis Schmidt, 12/2022 - 05/2024 , Student Assistant → MSc Thesis with Continental / IMRC
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Pablo Robles Cervantes, 11/2022 - 3/2023 , Student Assistant → MSc Student (Computer Science) ETH Zürich
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Welf Rehberg, 04/2022 - 11/2022 , MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science) → PhD Student, NTNU , K-Order Markov Optimization and Sequential Convex Programming for Multirotor Motion Planning
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