
S. (Salua) Hamaza
S. (Salua) Hamaza
Profiel
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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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.
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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2022-9
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)
Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2021-03-01 - 2023-03-01