Abstracts: May 20, 2024
ANDREY KOLOBOV: Thank you for having me!
HUIZINGA: So let’s start with a sort of abstract of your abstract. In just a few sentences, tell us about the problem your research addresses and more importantly, why we should care about it.
KOLOBOV: Right, so the overarching goal of this work—and I have to thank my collaborators from ETH Zürich, without whom this work would have been impossible—so the overarching goal of our work was to give drones the ability to stay aloft longer, safer, and cover larger distances. The reason why this is important is because drones’ potential for, for instance, quick delivery of small goods has long been understood, but in practice, their usefulness has been limited by the time they can spend in the air, by