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Jeff Delaune

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-205

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Jeff Delaune

Robotics Technologist

Biography

Jeff Delaune is a robotics technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He develops autonomous navigation systems for planetary exploration, with a focus on flying vehicles. Jeff was part of the navigation team for NASA’s Mars Helicopter flight project. His interests include state estimation, sensor fusion, perception, computer vision, system engineering and mission design.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Robotics, Institut Supérieur de lAéronautique et de lEspace (ISAE), 2013
  • M.S. in Astronautics and Space Engineering, Cranfield University, 2009
  • M.S. in Engineering, École Centrale de Nantes, 2009
  • B.S. in Engineering, École Centrale de Nantes, 2007

Professional Experience

  • Robotics Technologist, Jet Propulsion Lab, (2016-present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Lab, (2015-2016)
  • Founder, Boldmap, (2015)
  • Research Engineer, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), (2013-2015)

Research Interests

  • State Estimation, Bayesian Filtering, Non-Linear Optimization, SLAM
  • Sensor fusion: visual, inertial, range, solar, etc.
  • Mission Design and Analysis, Space System Engineering

Publications

2023
  1. Pedro Proença, Patrick Spieler, Robert Hewitt, Jeff Delaune, "TRADE: Object Tracking with 3D Trajectory and Ground Depth Estimates for UAVs," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3325-3331, 29 May 2023.
  2. Marcel Veismann, Jan Raffel, Malicia Leipold, Julius Wanner, Luis Phillipe Tosi, Jacob Izraelevitz, Matthew Devost, Larry Young, Thomas Touma, Parthiv Shah, Adam Weiss, Nicolas Reveles, Chris Ostoich, Markus Raffel, Joel Burdick, Morteza Gharib, Jeff Delaune, "Study of Rotor-Jetpack-Wind Aerodynamic Interaction for Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery on Mars," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-16, 04 March 2023.
2022
  1. C. Brommer, A. Fornasier, M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, J. Steinbrener, S. Weiss, "INSANE: Cross-domain UAV Data Sets with Increased Number of Sensors for developing Advanced and Novel Estimators," arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09114, 01 October 2022.
  2. V. Polizzi, R. Hewitt, J. Hidalgo-Carrió, J. Delaune and D. Scaramuzza, "Data-Efficient Collaborative Decentralized Thermal-Inertial Odometry," EEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 10681-10688, 28 July 2022.
  3. F. Mahlknecht, D. Gehrig, J. Nash, F. Rockenbauer, B. Morrell, J. Delaune, D. Scaramuzza, "Exploring Event Camera-Based Odometry for Planetary Robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 8651-8658, 01 July 2022.
  4. P. Proença, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, "Optimizing Terrain Mapping and Landing Site Detection for Autonomous UAVs," 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 9668-9674, 23 May 2022.
  5. T. Tzanetos, J. Bapst, G. Kubiak, L. Tosi, S. Sirlin, R. Brockers, J. Delaune, H. Grip, L. Matthies, J. B. Balaram, S. Withrow-Maser, W. Johnson, L. Young, B. Pipenberg, "Future of Mars Rotorcraft - Mars Science Helicopter," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-16, 05 March 2022.
  6. R. Brockers, P. Proença, J. Delaune, J. Todd, L. Matthies, T. Tzanetos, J. B. Balaram, "On-board Absolute Localization Based on Orbital Imagery for a Future Mars Science Helicopter," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-11, 05 March 2022.
  7. J. Delaune, J. Izraelevitz, S. Sirlin, D. Sternberg, L. Giersch, L. Tosi, E. Skyliyanskiy, L. Young, M. Mischna, S. Withrow-Maser, J. Mueller, J. Bowman, M. Wallance, H. Grip, L. Matthies, W. Johnson, M. Keennon, B. Pipenberg, H. Patel, C. Lim, M. Veismann, H. Cummings, S. Conley, T. Tzanetos, R. Brockers, A, Jain, D. Bayard, A. Chmielewski, O. Toupet, J. Burdick, M. Gharib, J. B. Balaram, "Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery at Mars Using a Jetpack," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-20, 05 March 2022.
2021
  1. P. Schoppmann, P. Proença, J. Delaune, M. Pantic, T. Hinzmann, L. Matthies, R. Siegwart, R. Brockers, "Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft," 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1990-1997, 27 September 2021.
  2. M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, S. Weiss, R. Brockers, "Mid-Air Range-Visual-Inertial Estimator Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, pp. 7613-7619, 30 May 2021.
  3. R. Brockers, J. Delaune, P. Porença, P. Schoppmann, M. Domnik, G. Kubiak, T. Tzanetos, "Autonomous Safe Landing Site Detection for a Future Mars Science Helicopter," 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-8, 06 March 2021.
  4. J. Delaune, D. Bayard, R. Brockers, "Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry: Scale Observability Without Excitation," EEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2421-2428, 11 February 2021.
2020
  1. Delaune, J., Brockers, R., Bayard, D.S., Dor, H., Hewitt, R., Sawoniewicz, J., Kubiak, G., Tzanetos, T., Matthies, L. and Balaram, J., "Extended Navigation Capabilities for a Future Mars Science Helicopter Concept," Accepted in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, pp. 1-10, 07 March 2020.
  2. A. Schutte, J. Delaune, E. Sklyanskiy, R. Hewitt, S. Daftry, M. Quadrelli, L. Matthies, "Integrated Simulation and State Estimation for Precision Landing on Titan," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 05 February 2020.
  3. L. Matthies, S. Daftry, B. Rothrock, A. Davis, R. Hewitt, E. Sklyanskiy, J. Delaune, A. Schutte, M. Quadrelli, M. Malaska, "Terrain Relative Navigation for Guided Descent on Titan," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 05 February 2020.
2019
  1. M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, and S. Weiss, "Visual-Inertial On-Board Throw-and-Go Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles," 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 6899-6905, 03 November 2019.
  2. H. Grip, J. Lam, D. Bayard, D. Conway, G. Singh, R. Brockers, J. Delaune, L. Matthies, C. Malpica, T. Brown, A. Jain, A. San Martin, and G. Merewether, "Flight Control System for NASA's Mars Helicopter," AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, pp. 1-20, 07 January 2019.
  3. Delaune, J., Hewitt, R., Lytle, L., Sorice, C., Thakker, R. and Matthies, L., "Thermal-Inertial Odometry for Autonomous Flight Throughout the Night," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 01 January 2019.
  4. Bayard, D., Conway, D.T., Brockers, R., Delaune, J., Matthies, L., Grip, H.F., Merewether, G., Brown, T., San Martin, A.M., "Vision-Based Navigation for the NASA Mars Helicopter," AIAA SciTech Forum, 01 January 2019.
2018
  1. S. Daftry, J. Delaune, R. Bhuta, L. Matthies, "Towards Vision-based Safe Autonomous Landing of MAVs at Night," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 03 October 2018.
2016
  1. J. Delaune, G. Le Besnerais, T. Voirin, J.L. Farges, C. Bourdarias,, "Visual-inertial navigation for pinpoint planetary landing using scale-based landmark matching," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 78, 63–82, 01 April 2016.
2013
  1. T. Voirin, J. Delaune, G., Le Besnerais, J.L. Farges, H. Krueger,, "Challenges of pinpoint landing for planetary exploration: the LION absolute vision-based navigation system step-wise validation approach," 10th International Planetary Probe Worshop, 01 January 2013.
2012
  1. M. Sanfourche, J. Delaune, G. Le Besnerais, H. de Plinval, J. Israel, P. Cornic, A. Treil, Y. Watanabe, A. Plyer,, "Perception for UAV: Vision-Based Navigation and Environment Modeling," Aerospace Lab, Issue 4, 01 January 2012.
  2. J. Delaune, G. Le Besnerais, M. Sanfourche, T. Voirin, C. Bourdarias, J.L. Farges., "Optical Terrain Navigation for Pinpoint Landing: Image Scale and Position-Guided Landmark Matching," Proceedings of the 35th Annual Guidance and Control Conference, 01 January 2012.
2011
  1. J. Delaune, G. Le Besnerais, J.L. Farges, C. Bourdarias, T. Voirin, A. Piquereau,, "Tightly-Integrated Visual and Inertial Navigation for Pinpoint Landing on Rugged Terrains," 11th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, 01 January 2011.
  2. J. Delaune, G. Le Besnerais, M. Sanfourche, J.L. Farges, C. Bourdarias, T. Voirin,, "Camera-Aided Inertial Navigation for Pinpoint Landing on Rugged Terrains," 8th International Planetary Probe Workshop, 01 January 2011.
2010
  1. J. Delaune, D. De Rosa, S. Hobbs,, "Guidance and Control system design for Lunar Descent and Landing," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, 01 January 2010.