Publications


Book Chapter

Noth, A., Siegwart, R. and Engel, W. Autonomous Solar UAV for Sustainable Flight in: Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, State of the Art and the Road to Autonomy, edited by Kimon P. Valavanis, Springer Verlag, 2007. [Springer]


Noth, A., Engel, W. and Siegwart, R. Design of an Ultra-Lightweight Autonomous Solar Airplane for Continuous Flight. in: Field and Service Robotics, P. Corke, S. Sukkariah (editors), Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 5th International Conference, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006, vol. 25 [Springer]

Journals

Noth, A., Engel, W. and Siegwart, R. Flying Solo and Solar to Mars - Global Design of a Solar Autonomous Airplane for Sustainable Flight. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp 44-52, Sept. 2006. [Flying Solo and Solar to Mars]

Peer Review Proceeding

Noth A., Engel W., Siegwart R. Recent Progresses on the Martian Solar Airplane Project Sky-Sailor In Proceedings of the 9th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics (ASTRA 2006), Noordwick, Netherland, 2006. [ASTRA'2006]  [pdf]

 

Noth, A., Engel, W. and Siegwart, R. Design of an Ultra-Lightweight Autonomous Solar Airplane for Continuous Flight. In Proceedings of Field and Service Robotics, Port Douglas, Australia, 2005. [pdf]

 

Noth, A., Bouabdallah, S., Michaud, S., Siegwart, R. and Engel, W. SKY-SAILOR Design of an autonomous solar powered martian airplane. In Proceedings of the 8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics, (ASTRA 2004), Noordwick, Netherland,2004. [ASTRA'2004]  [pdf]

PhD Thesis

Noth, André, Design of Solar Powered Airplanes for Continuous Flight, PhD Thesis, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, December 2008. [pdf]


PhD Exam Slides English [ppt] [pdf]
PhD Exam Slides French [ppt] [pdf]

Lecture notes

Noth, André, Siegwart, Roland, Engel, Walter Design of Solar Powered Airplanes for Continuous Flight, Aircraft & Spacecraft Systems Design Lecture Notes, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, December 2006. [pdf]

 

Noth, André, Bouabdallah, Samir, Siegwart, Roland, Dynamic Modeling of Fixed-Wing UAVs, Aircraft & Spacecraft Systems Design Lecture Notes, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, December 2006. [pdf]

 

Noth, André, History of Solar Flight, Aircraft & Spacecraft Systems Design Lecture Notes, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, December 2006. [pdf] [version française]

 

Student Projects

Fux, Samuel, Development of a Planar Low Cost Inertial Measurement Unit for UAVs and MAVs, Master Project, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2008. [pdf][ASL-IMU picture]

 

Fonseka, Erik, Modeling and Flying Thermal Tubes with an UAV , Semester Project for Master Degree, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2007. [pdf]

 

Diepeveen, Niels, The Sun-Surfer : Design and construction of a solar powered MAV , Internship Project for Master Degree , Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2007. [pdf] [video]

 

Fenner, Jannick, Sky-Sailor : Exploiting Thermals , Semester Project for Master Degree , Automatic Control Laboratory, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007. [pdf] [video]

 

Mattio, Andrea,  Modelling and Control of the UAV Sky-Sailor , Master Project, Autonomous System Lab, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, 2006. [pdf]

 

Brocard, Jean-Luc, Nguyen, Laurent, Image processing on Mars aerial pictures for Sky-Sailor, Semester Project, Autonomous System Lab, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005. [pdf]

 

Media Coverage

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  • SwissInfo [english][français]
  • DRS [mp3-deutsch]
  • 24 Heures[pdf]
  • Le Matin[pdf]
  • Le Temps[pdf]
  • Tribune de Genève[pdf]
  • Flash EPFL[pdf]

    • The Engineer, July 2007 (English) [pdf]

    spyplanes.blogspot.com, March 2007 (English) [pdf]

    PhysOrg.com, March 2007 (English) [pdf]

    High5, March 2007 (German) [pdf]

    Büdner Tagblatt, February 2004 (Germand) [pdf]

    Höfner Volksblatt, February 2004 (German) [pdf]

    Riviera Chablais, January 2004 (French) [pdf]

    24heures, January 2004 (French) [pdf]