Background

As a software engineer, electronics engineer, flight mechanics and control specialist, model plane pilot, former glider pilot, private pilot, RPAS operator, entrepreneur and initiator of the MAVLab he now mainly leads the technical developments of the Micro Aerial Vehicle Lab.

Research interest

Aerospace Engineering, UAV, MAV, Flight Control, Computer Vision, Private Pilots, Remote Controlled Aircraft, Software, Electronics, Embedded programming, Intelligent systems

Projects

• 2004 – Now: MAVLab [http://www.mavlab.lr.tudelft.nl/]
• 2015: Panasonic Vision Based Micro Drones
• 2015: Infinium Robotics: Drone Robot Waiter [website]
• 2015: NUS Flapping Wing
• 2015: Berisuas 2 [website]
• 2014: MilFly 2
• 2014: APRA [article]
• 2014: Berisuas Phase 1 [article]
• 2013: Interreg 3i [video]
• 2012: FireSwarm [http://fireswarm.nl/]
• 2011 – 2012: MilFly 1 [video]
• 2011 – 2012: Project Explorer [article]
• 2012: ATMOS [http://www.atmosuav.com/]
• 2012 – Reconserve
• 2011 – 2013: Hear and Avoid
• 2008-2009: Laddermill control pod [article]
• IMAV 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 Deelname [http://www.imavs.org/]
• IMAV2009, IMAV 2011 Organisatie [http://www.imavs.org/]
• 2008 – 2009: Heering UAS [http://www.heeringuas.nl/]
• 2007 & 2009: Intelligent Flying Object
• 2008: Fugro
• 2008: DelFly Micro [record]
• 2007 – Now: Paparazzi UAV [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki]
• 2007 – 2008: Navionex
• 2006: RoboSwift [www.roboswift.nl]
• 2006: DelFly II [www.delfly.nl]
• Tomation (Priva)
• 2005: C-Scan
• 2005: DelFly 1
• 2005: Delft Dynamics [http://www.delftdynamics.nl/]
• 2004 – 2006: B&A Avionics AHRS
• Vision-based control
• GaTech UAVLab [site]