Michael Burri

Hey, I'm Michael, and I'm currently a PhD student on the rotary wing team at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich. My research interests are in control, state estimation, system identification, and planning for micro aerial vehicles, with the goal of fully automated flight using IMU and on board cameras as the main sensors.

I finished my Masters in Robotics, Systems, and Control in 2011, also at ETH.

[michael.burri@mavt.ethz.ch | github | google scholar | researchgate]

Publications

Conference

Thomas Schneider, Mingyang Li, Michael Burri, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, and Igor Gilitschenski, "Visual-inertial self-calibration on informative motion segments". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017.

Rik Bähnemann, Michael Burri, Enric Galceran, Roland Siegwart, and Juan Nieto, "Sampling-based motion planning for active multirotor system identification". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017.
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Michael Burri, Michael Bloesch, Dominik Schindler, Igor Gilitschenski, Zachary Taylor, and Roland Siegwart, "Generalized Information Filtering for MAV Parameter Estimation". In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2016.
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Helen Oleynikova, Michael Burri, Zachary Taylor, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, and Enric Galceran, "Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization for Online UAV Replanning". In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2016.
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Michael Burri, Janosch Nikolic, Helen Oleynikova, Markus W. Achtelik, and Roland Siegwart, "Maximum Likelihood Parameter Identification for MAVs". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2016.
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Sebastian Verling, Basil Weibel, Max Boosfeld, Kostas Alexis, Michael Burri, and Roland Siegwart, "Full Attitude Control of a VTOL tailsitter UAV". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2016.
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Michael Burri, Helen Oleynikova, Markus Achtelik, Roland Siegwart, "Real-Time Visual-Inertial Mapping, Re-localization and Planning Onboard MAVs in Previously Unknown Environments". In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2015.
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Helen Oleynikova, Michael Burri, Simon Lynen, Roland Siegwart, "Real-Time Visual-Inertial Localization for Aerial and Ground Robots". In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2015.
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Michael Burri, Manuel Dätwiler, Markus W. Achtelik, and Roland Siegwart, "Robust state estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles based on system dynamics". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2015.
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Andreas Bircher, Kostas Alexis, Michael Burri, Philipp Oettershagen, Sammy Omari, Thomas Mantel, and Roland Siegwart, "Structural inspection path planning via iterative viewpoint resampling with application to aerial robotics". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2015.
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Pascal Gohl, Michael Burri, Sammy Omari, Joern Rehder, Janosch Nikolic, Markus Achtelik, and Roland Siegwart, "Towards autonomous mine inspection". In International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2014.
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Janosch Nikolic, Jörn Rehder, Michael Burri, Pascal Gohl, Stefan Leutenegger, Paul T. Furgale, and Roland Siegwart, "A Synchronized Visual-Inertial Sensor System with FPGA Pre-Processing for Accurate Real-Time SLAM". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2014.
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Georgios Darivianakis, Kostas Alexis, Michael Burri, and Roland Siegwart, "Hybrid Predictive Control for Aerial Robotic Physical Interaction towards Inspection Operations". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2014.
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Janosch Nikolic, Michael Burri, Jörn Rehder, Stefan Leutenegger, Christoph Hürzeler, and Roland Siegwart, "A UAV system for inspection of industrial facilities". In IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2013.
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Michael Burri, Janosch Nikolic, Christoph Hürzeler, Gilles Caprari, and Roland Siegwart, "Aerial service robots for visual inspection of thermal power plant boiler systems". In International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2012.
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Journal

Michael Burri, Michael Bloesch, Zachary Taylor, Roland Siegwart, and Juan Nieto. “A framework for maximum likelihood parameter identification applied on MAVs”. Accepted for publication in Journal of Field Robotics, 2017.

Michael Bloesch, Michael Burri, Sammy Omari, Marco Hutter, and Roland Siegwart. “IEKF-based Visual-Inertial Odometry using Direct Photometric Feedback”. Accepted for publication in The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2017.

Janosch Nikolic, Michael Burri, Igor Gilitschenski, Juan Nieto, and Roland Siegwart. “Non-Parametric Extrinsic and Intrinsic Calibration of Visual-Inertial Sensor Systems”. In IEEE Sensors Journal 16(13):1-1, July, 2016.
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Andreas Bircher, Kostas Alexis, Ulrich Schwesinger, Sammy Omari, Michael Burri, and Roland Siegwart. “An incremental sampling-based approach to inspection planning: the rapidly exploring random tree of trees”. In Robotica, March, 2016.
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Michael Burri, Janosch Nikolic, Pascal Gohl, Thomas Schneider, Joern Rehder, Sammy Omari, Markus W Achtelik, and Roland Siegwart. “The EuRoC micro aerial vehicle datasets”. In The International Journal of Robotics Research 35(10), January 2016.
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Andreas Bircher, Mina Kamel, Kostas Alexis, Michael Burri, Philipp Oettershagen, Sammy Omari, Thomas Mantel, and Roland Siegwart. “Three-dimensional coverage path planning via viewpoint resampling and tour optimization for aerial robots”. In Autonomous Robots, November, 2015.
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Kostas Alexis, Georgios Darivianakis, Michael Burri, and Roland Siegwart. “Aerial robotic contact-based inspection: planning and control”. In Autonomous Robots 40(4), August, 2015.
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Bookchapter

Fadri Furrer, Michael Burri, Markus Achtelik, and Roland Siegwart. “RotorS – A Modular Gazebo MAV Simulator Framework”. In Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 1), Springer International Publishing, Editors: Anis Koubaa, 2016.
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Technical Report

Michael Bloesch, Hannes Sommer, Tristan Laidlow, Michael Burri, Gabriel Nuetzi, Péter Fankhauser, Dario Bellicoso, Christian Gehring, Stefan Leutenegger, Marco Hutter, and Roland Siegwart. “A Primer on the Differential Calculus of 3D Orientations”. In arXiv, 2016.
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Student Projects

Ongoing

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Finished Projects

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