
S. (Salua) Hamaza
S. (Salua) Hamaza
Profiel
Expertise
Research interests are in two main areas:
aerial physical interaction and
embodied intelligence in aerial robots. Salua is interested in the design and morphology of aerial robots, and their implications in flight performance and stability during airborne interaction with the environment. Types of aerial interaction include: manipulating objects, contact inspection, perching and crawling with aerial robots.
Recurring themes are mechanical compliance, design of actuators, compliant interaction control, kinematics and dynamics of multi-DoFs mechanisms for aerial robots, adaptive morphology, soft manipulation.
Biografie
Salua Hamaza is Assistant Professor at the Micro Air Vehicles Lab (MAVLab) at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft. She received her PhD in
Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the University of Bristol (UK) in 2019. Previously to the PhD in 2015, she was Research Engineer at the Robotics and Mechatronics Group (RAM) at University of Twente (NL), supervised by Prof. S. Stramigioli. During 2018 she was visiting PhD student at the Group of Robotics, Vision and Control (GRVC) at the University of Seville, supervised by Prof. A. Ollero. In 2019 she joined Imperial College London as PostDoc in the Aerial Robotics Laboratory, supervised by Prof. M. Kovac. To this day, she continues collaborating with the group at Imperial College as Guest Researcher.
Salua was awarded the IEEE Best RA-L Paper award at ICRA 2017. She ranked finalist in the 2019 edition of
Best UK PhD in Robotics Award, 2019 issued by Queen Mary University London, next to candidates from top UK Universities.
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Awards
- Best Paper Award, finalist - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020 Workshop on Perception, Planning and Mobility in Forestry Robotics
- Best PhD in Robotics in the UK Award 2019, 3rd prize
- Best Paper Award in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, awarded at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017
- Patent: Manipulation Control System (inventor). Filed by the University of Bristol (UK) 2017.
Expertise
Publicaties
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2022
Battle the Wind: Improving Flight Stability of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Under Wind Disturbance With Onboard Thermistor-Based Airflow Sensing
S. Wang / D.A. Olejnik / C. de Wagter / B.W. van Oudheusden / G.C.H.E. de Croon / S. Hamaza
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2020
Design, modeling, and control of an aerial manipulator for placement and retrieval of sensors in the environment
Salua Hamaza / Ioannis Georgilas / Guillermo Heredia / AnĂbal Ollero / Thomas Richardson
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2020
Omni-Drone
On the Design of a Novel Aerial Manipulator with Omni-directional Workspace
Salua Hamaza / Mirko Kovac -
2020-11
Sensor Delivery in Forests with Aerial Robots: A New Paradigm for Environmental Monitoring
S. Hamaza / André Farinha / Hai-Nguyen Nguyen / Mirko Kovac
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2019
2D Contour Following with an Unmanned Aerial Manipulator
Towards Tactile-Based Aerial Navigation
Salua Hamaza / Ioannis Georgilas / Thomas Richardson -
Prijzen
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2020-10
BEST PAPER AWARD
finalist - IEEE IROS 2020 Workshop on Perception, Planning and Mobility in Forestry Robotics
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2019
BEST PHD IN ROBOTICS in the UK, 3rd prize
20th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2019 -
2017
BEST PAPER AWARD
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2017
BEST PAPER AWARD
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2021-03-01 - 2023-03-01