Past Flagship projects
Autonomous Legged Robots
Students could have participated in the design and development of an autonomous quadruped robot for real-life applications such as blind person assistance and other applications. They worked with embedded
systems, sensors including cameras and LiDARs, embedded control, hardware and software design, controlling robotic arms, and with state of art legged robots from Unitree..
Nano-Drones
Flying a drone with a remote controller is cool, making a nano-drone autonomously flying everywhere is mind-blowing. Based on the commercial opensource nano-drone Crazyflie 2.1 students were able to design, build, and test their own idea, including weight-optimized hardware, novel sensors, real-time perception and ML models. Imagine a 27 grams drone, completely autonomous, navigating among people and random objects. external page check out the video
ForzaETH autonomous racing
Develop and implement novel robotic algorithms in the context of autonomous racing. The students had the opportunity, to test their
work on multiple physical robotic systems. external page check out the video
Robotic Sailing
The students had the opportunity to work with embedded systems under space and low-power constraints.
They could improve their boat in the following areas:
▪ Telemetry link to base station
▪ Optimize Sensors and design new ones (e.g. wind speed)
▪ Path planning and Control