Stefan Leutenegger - Personal Page

I am mostly involved in the senseSoar project, which aims at the design and autonomous operation of a small solar airplane. Whilst unmanned aircraft are already successfully applied in the defense sector, this project targets strictly non-military applications.

At a size of only 3 meters wingspan, the airplane is easy to deploy and may be operated close to the ground. We target high autonomy in the sense of flight time but also with respect to user interaction.

Design and Autonomous Operation of Solar Airplanes

For detailed information on the senseSoar solar airplane, please visit http://projects.asl.ethz.ch/sensesoar/.

BRISK - Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints

An attempt to provide very fast rotation and scale invariant features with a binary descriptor. New: open-source software package available!

Publications

Journals

• S. Leutenegger, M. Jabas, and R. Y. Siegwart, Solar Airplane Conceptual Design and Performance Estimation. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 61, No. 1-4, pp. 545-561, DOI: 10.1007/s10846-010-9484-x
• A. Noth, S. Leutenegger, R. Y. Siegwart, and W. Engel, Designing solar airplanes for continuous flight. SPIE Newsroom on Solar & Alternative Energy, June 17th 2009. DOI: 10.1117/2.1200906.1649

Conferences

• Stefan Leutenegger, Margarita Chli and Roland Siegwart, BRISK: Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints, to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011.