PeAR Seminar Series on Fast Robot Autonomy
Title: Skydio Dock: Fully-Autonomous UAV Systems At Scale
Speaker: Davide Falanga
Skydio
On Wednesday, Dec 06th 2023 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM
https://wpi.zoom.us/my/nitin
Abstract:
At Skydio, we ship autonomous drones that are flown at scale in unknown environments every day by our customers to capture incredible video, automate dangerous inspections, and provide situational awareness. To do this, they must make decisions at high speed using their onboard cameras and algorithms. As we progress towards large-scale end-to-end autonomous missions with our Skydio Dock platform, reliability and robustness are paramount to success. The robot must continuously accomplish its mission at remote sites without human intervention.
Bio:
Davide Falanga is a Senior Engineering Manager at Skydio in the Autonomy team, leading a team of very talented engineers working on planning and controls. I received a PhD in Robotics from the University of Zurich. I carried out my research at the Robotics and Perception Group, under the supervision of Prof. Davide Scaramuzza, where I worked on motion planning and control for Micro Aerial Vehicles. In particular, I focused on vision-based quadrotors, aiming at coupling perception and action for autonomous, high-speed navigation using only onboard sensing and computing.