
S. (Salua) Hamaza
S. (Salua) Hamaza
Profiel
Biografie
Prof. Salua Hamaza is Assistant Professor in Aerial Robotics & Director of the BioMorphic Intelligence Lab at TU Delft, Netherlands. She is also Research Fellow at Imperial College London, Aerial Robotics Lab. Her research focuses on the development of compliant aerial robots capable of interacting with objects and the environment for manipulation (primarily), and locomotion. Her robotic solutions take inspiration from biological systems for flying and interaction tasks, leveraging compliance in hardware and software to advance aerial robots’ autonomy.
Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Aerial Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. She obtained her Ph.D. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, in 2019. She was visiting researcher at the GRVC at University of Seville, Spain, during 2018. Prior to the PhD she was researcher at RAM at University of Twente, Netherlands. She received the MSc degree from the University of Bologna and TU Delft.
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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 interacting aerial robots, and their implications in flight performance and autonomy. Types of aerial interaction tasks include: manipulation, placement of objects in the environment, dynamic grasping, perching, locomotion.
Recurring themes are mechanical compliance, design of actuators, compliant control theory, kinematics and dynamics of multi-DoFs mechanisms for aerial robots, bio-inspired morphology & sensing, soft manipulation.
Awards
- Best Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022 Workshop on Robotics for Nuclear Environments Exploration and Decommissioning: Challenges and Emerging Techniques;
- 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
ADAPT: A 3 Degrees of Freedom Reconfigurable Force Balanced Parallel Manipulator for Aerial Applications
K. SURYAVANSHI / S. Hamaza / V. van der Wijk / J.L. Herder
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2022
An Integrated Framework for Autonomous Sensor Placement With Aerial Robots
Brett Stephens / Hai-Nguyen Nguyen / S. Hamaza / Mirko Kovac
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2022
Automated Aerial Screwing with a Fully Actuated Aerial Manipulator
Micha Schuster / David Bernstein / Paul Reck / S. Hamaza / Michael Beitelschmidt
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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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2022
Embodied airflow sensing for improved in-gust flight of flapping wing MAVs
C. Wang / S. Wang / G.C.H.E. de Croon / S. Hamaza
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Media
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2022-11-30
BioMorphic Intelligence Lab Kick-off Event and Symposium
Verscheen in: TU Delft
Prijzen
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2022-11
BEST PAPER AWARD
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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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2019-11
BEST PHD IN ROBOTICS in the UK, 3rd prize
20th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2019 -
2017-6
BEST PAPER AWARD
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)