The winning team from TU Delft’s MAVLab

Earlier this year, a team from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory, MAVLab, of Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, competed against 13 autonomous drones and three drone racing champions at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi – beating them all in a historic racing first.

The victorious team’s drone was able to dominate the competition thanks to neural network-based AI control systems, originally developed by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) – the agency’s multidisciplinary think tank focusing on emerging technologies.

The TU Delft team: Anton Lang, Quentin Missine, Aderik Verraest, Erin Lucassen, Till Blaha, Robin Ferede, Stavrow Bahnam, Christophe De Wagter and Guido de Croon.

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[Image description: This is a photograph of the team from Delft University of Technology that won the A2RL autonomous drone racing championship in Abu Dhabi. The team has nine members, all seen facing the camera and posing in front of a purple banner with logos of the race organisers and sponsors. Two of the team members are squatting in front of the others, one is holding the racing drone and the other the controller. The remaining seven members are standing behind them, with arms around each other’s shoulders. All of them are wearing a white shirt with short orange sleeves. They are all smiling in celebration.]