Vision
Our drone will operate free of external and visible propellers and is intended to be used for infrastructure inspection work.
The current state of drone technology focuses heavily on manoeuvrability – not on safety. Most drones for commercial applications are severely limited in their applications as their external propellers pose significant risks to workers and fragile infrastructure like wind turbine blades.
Our drone can be used by workers without any safety concerns, can withstand inspection-typical collisions and freely orient itself in space as desired.
SAFE INTERACTION
Without any exposed Propellers or hot exhaust gases, this drone is safe to interact with humans and infrastructure alike
COLLISION RESISTANCE
Close Proximity Inspection in unpredictable and windy envoirements becomes possible as there are no moving parts to break
MANOEUVRABILITY
With six degrees of freedom this drone is capable of very complex in-flight manoeuvres and translations
Iterations
Through an iterative development process we converge on a final design. Here you can see a few past iterations we developed since the beginning of the project.
Team
We are the AVERO team and are passionately developing this groundbreaking new type of drone. Our team is made up of highly committed and creative mechanical engineering and industrial design students from ETH and ZHdK. This project is part of the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH.
Sponsors
To achieve our vision, we rely on collaboration with sponsors for technical, financial and material support. Your support enables us to further develop the current state of how drones are built and flown. Together we will progress unmanned aviation. Our sponsors are divided into four categories according to their generous support contributions. We offer different PR packages according to these categories.
Get in touch
Do you want to be part of the journey? Contact us and we'll explore your role in the development of this cutting edge research project.