Flight Mechanics

How can we create agile micro aerial vehicles that are able to operate autonomously in cluttered indoor and outdoor environments? You will gain an introduction to the mechanics of flight and the design of quadrotor flying robots and will be able to develop dynamic models, derive controllers, and synthesize [...]

Discover the fascinating world of aviation by investigating aeronautics, with a closer look at aerodynamics and flight mechanics. This course provides an overview of and introduction to the fundamentals of aeronautics, using the history of aviation as a story line.

The purpose of the course is to provide students with knowledge about the technology of aerial photography using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The course objectives include: knowledge about various aircraft and payloads, the geodetic control creation, flights planning and their implementation, the main stages of data processing and application [...]

Cela fait à peine plus d’un siècle que les avions volent. Et, de fait, le vol défie souvent l’intuition de l’animal terrestre que nous sommes. Comment vole un avion et comment éviter qu’il échappe au contrôle du pilote ? Jusqu’où peut-il s’élever dans le ciel ? Autant de questions [...]

Discover how airplanes work and explore simple flight mechanics: from take off and landing, to the physics of flight. How does do planes take off? How do they fly? How do pilots maintain control of them? And how high do planes fly? Get answer to all these questions and [...]