Lead Researcher: Dr Mauro S. Innocente
Researchers:
Dr Thomas Statheros
Dr Nadjim Horri
Erle-copter Taking-off & Landing
Contributing Student: Constantin S. Pavelescu (Research Intern, 2018)
From ground position, the motors are armed, the drone takes off and maintains altitude. After a few seconds, it lands.

Erle-copter Tracing Railway Tracks
Contributing Students:
Paul E. Esugo (MSc Student, 2018)
Constantin S. Pavelescu (Research Intern, 2018)
Detecting and following Vanishing Point (VP) with PID Controller.

Autonomous Identification of Missing Fasteners in Railway Tracks
Contributing Student: Matthew Sumner (MSc Student,2018)
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to classify different issues in sleeper fasteners from dataset of images collected from current automatic track inspection systems.
