Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) are an emerging to a range of industrial and societal challenges—from maritime search-and-rescue; to medical logistics; to air defence.
Testing an insect-inspired micro-air-vehicle in the flight lab.
Researchers from the Division of Fluid Dynamics, including Assistant Prof. Arion Pons, Associate Professor Carlos Xisto, and researchers Isak Jonsson and Patxi Daniel Rodriguez Acero, are developing new UAV technologies. The division’s activities include research on UAV flight simulation, novel UAV designs, new materials and power sources for UAVs, UAVs for logistics and emergency medicine, as well as support for the Chalmers Aero Team and the interdisciplinary course TRA370: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles. In addition, members of the division operate the M2 Stereolithography Lab, for high-precision resin (SLA) 3D-printing of aerospace parts.
More on the research area Drones
- Building the skyways of the future: Chalmers and the next mobility revolution (Opens in new tab)
- Listen to Arion Pons in Chalmers' Verapodden, talking about his research (Opens in new tab)
- "Quaternion Variational Integration for Inertial Maneuvering in a Biomimetic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" (Opens in new tab)
Staff members within the research area
Arion Pons
- Assistant Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Arion Pons
- Assistant Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Carlos Xisto
- Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Carlos Xisto
- Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Patxi Rodriguez Acero
- Research Engineer, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Patxi Rodriguez Acero
- Research Engineer, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Isak Jonsson
- Researcher, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Isak Jonsson
- Researcher, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Contact person
Arion Pons
- Assistant Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering
Arion Pons
- Assistant Professor, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering