About Drones ...

Well, currently, Drones are one of the most interesting and increasing research lines, many researchers and amateur UAV developpers are involved in its study.We can find lots of amateur pages, doctoral and master thesis , scientific publictions and even, so interesting toolkits and simulators.

Here we have some interesting links, and, in a little time, some slides about its modelling and control.

PUBLICATIONS
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B--LHIqIe32EbFZkUm9WUkd0eG8&usp=sharing

SOFTWARE

ArDrone Toolkit Matlab
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/43719-ar-drone-simulink-development-kit-v1

The development kit consists of blocks and examples for the simulation and real-time Wi-Fi control of the Parrot AR Drone 2.0.

The simulation blocks are based on models of the vehicle derived via system identification. The Wi-Fi control blocks are capable of sending commands to the drone and reading the states of the drone in real-time.

The examples provide a framework for the control and guidance of the vehicle. These examples enable velocity and position control, waypoint tracking, and mission execution for the AR.Drone in both simulation and Wi-Fi control.

This development kit was produced in the context of the 2013 MathWorks Summer Research Internship project. For more information about the overall project to develop an automated autonomous emergency response system see:

Required Products Aerospace Blockset

http://ardrone2.parrot.com/support/

Gazebo Quadrotor Simulator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gazebo-quad-sim/

Machine Vision & Robotics Toolbox (MATLAB)

http://www.petercorke.com/Toolbox_software.html

BOOKS
Robotics, Vision and Control
http://www.petercorke.com/Book.html

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications
http://szeliski.org/Book/

DEVELOPPERS

Howard Li

(PEng, PhD, IEEE Senior Member) is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

"His research interests are intelligent vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, motion planning, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), mechatronics, control systems,robotics, multi-agent systems, and artificial intelligence."

http://www.ee.unb.ca/howard/research/index.htm

Paul E. I. Pounds
School of Info. Tech. and Electrical Engineering
University of Queensland
Lecturer of Mechatronics (assist. prof. eqv.)

"My research focuses on unmanned aerial vehicles. In the past I've worked on flight mechanics, stability and control, propulsion, avionics and embedded software for UAVs, and rotorcraft in particular. More recently, I have worked on the problem of UAVs interacting with objects while in flight, including grasping and recovering unstructured objects by a small robot helicopter."

See more details on my research here and a full list of publications here.

Nick Dijkshoorn

Master Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam
"Hi there, i'm a master student at the University of Amsterdam. I'm following the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme. Beside my studies, i have a web development company called Deepvisiontogether with three friends. We started this company in 2003, at age 16."

Private:mail@nickd.nl
Work:n.dijkshoorn@deepvision.nl
Skype:nickemanz

http://www.nickd.nl/dl/

Tomas Krajnik
cyberneticist, roboteer
Lincoln centre for autonomous systems,
Faculty of Science,
University of Lincoln,
Brayford pool, Lincoln
LN6 7TS, Lincolnshire
United Kingdom

"Working in the mobile robotics domain since 2004 with a particular focus on outdoor robot navigation, environment modeling, reasoning and planning. Has designed, implemented, theoretically and experimentally veri ed a monocular based mobile robot navigation method, which allows an autonomous vehicle to traverse long paths in unstructured environments."

ARDrone quadcopter in robotics research
http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/~tkrajnik/ardrone/

Jana Kosecka
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University

Her general research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Robotics. In particular she is interested 'seeing' systems engaged in autonomous tasks, acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensing and human-computer interaction.
http://cs.gmu.edu/~kosecka/


Prof. Daniel Cremers, 
Computer Vision Group, 

Technical University of Munich:

website publications videos

Prof. Vijay Kumar, 
GRASP Laboratory, 

University of Pennsylvania: 

website publications videos

Prof. Raffaelo D'Andrea,
 Flying Machine Arena, 

ETH Zurich: 

website publications videos

Prof. Roland Siegwart, 
Autonomous Systems Lab, 

ETH Zurich: 

website publications videos

Both Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Raffaelo D'Andrea
They gave entertaining TED talks on the topic including impressive live demos:
TED Talk: Robots that fly.. and cooperate (by Prof. Vijay Kumar)
TED Talk: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters (by Prof. Raffaelo D'Andrea)

OCW COURSES
Visual Navigation for Flying Robots

http://vision.in.tum.de/teaching/ss2013/visnav2013
EDX - AUTONAVx Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots
https://courses.edx.org/courses/TUMx/AUTONAVx/2T2014/info

Related Links
http://flyingmachinearena.org/how-to/