Labbook IMAV

March 9, 2026

The CrazyFlie also supports Motion Capture systems like Optitrack, but just with a simple mounting deck.

The DronEdu proposal is based on the format of the AiRobo project, which organizes a summerschool and a book on Ai & Robotics.
The project had actually its inaugural AiRobo conference Dec. 2023, so is already running for three years.
The project is described in a paper presented at World Conference on Educational Media & Technology.
The final conference of AiRobo will be in October 2026, in Nancy, France. No call for papers yet.
The AiRobo book seems also not finished yet. It has five chapters, including verification and complex algorithms.
The most robotic publication from the consortium is A Case Study in Generating 3D Maps with Collaborative Robots, where a Velodyne point-cloud is loaded into a Pepper robot.

The Boson-nighttime dataset is good benchmark for Satellite and Thermal images. See Table 2 from this overview paper. The extended dataset (69 Gb + 121 Gb) is studied in this RAL paper (Oct 2024).

Looking for Drone books at Packt publishing.
- Drone Development from Concept to Flight (April 2024) - hardware oriented
- Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino (Feb 2018) - also hardware oriented - yet including a person following code
Other publishers:
- A First Course in Aerial Robots and DronesA First Course in Aerial Robots and Drones. (2022) Concentrates on Avionics.
- DRONE AI: “Building Intelligent Drone Systems with Machine Learning” (Apr. 2025) also covers ML and CV, but couldn't find it with the publisher.
- Intelligent Autonomous Drones with Cognitive Deep Learning: Build AI-Enabled Land Drones with the Raspberry Pi 4, which also covers Sense & Avoidance, and even SLAM & Navigation (ROS Noetic based). Textbook with github code (empty).

For a future drone project, I checked the work of Ivano Malavolta from the VU. He published in 2025 a paper on the resource usage of 2D SLAM algorithms, but based on ROS1 (and with Cartographer 2016 as most modern method).