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Recently, four of our master students have defended their master theses and graduated! Congratuations to Luuk, Yehia, Ferdi, and Camiel, on this milestone! Many thanks to their co-supervisors Kousheek, Youssef, Barbara, Niccolò, Daniel, Simon, Chiara, Antonio, and Abeje.

🎉 Happy to share that our paper “Actuator Dynamics Curricula for Narrow-Viability Tasks in Legged Robot Learning” has been accepted to CoRL 2026! Kudos to the lead author, Kousheek, for his wonderful work and great collaboration!

Another milestone in Smart Mechatronics And RoboTics (SMART) Research Group in Saxion University of Applied Sciences! We tested our aerial robot Sarax with a live wind turbine in Eemshaven, Netherlands, by the (very windy) North Sea, in a Physical Interaction Experiment (for Inspection and Maintenance tasks).

AEROWIND Project has kicked off! Today, we kicked off the research project AEROWIND, together with our partners from the industry and academia, with the first consortium meeting, followed by a demo of AeroBlaster, our surface preparation aerial robot.

We officially kicked off the MAESTRO-Drone project with the first consortium meeting and the first series of field experiments with our Aerial Robot in the windy environment by the North Sea in Eemshaven, the Netherlands.

🎉 I’m happy to share that we will present two papers at the upcoming ICUAS conference in North Carolina, USA! The first paper, “External-Wrench Estimation for Aerial Robots Exploiting a Learned Model”, by Ayham Alharbat, Gabriele Ruscelli, Roberto Diversi, and Abeje Y.

Congratuations to Pantelis for graduating his MSc in Robotics, Cum Laude, from the University of Twente. Pantelis got a grade of 9.0 for his thesis that investigated “Hybrid Aerodynamic Interference Aware Model for Multi-Rotor Platforms.