SmartFish is a fish shaped airplane. The project is about building a complete navigation system and ground station for it. The first big experiment will be an autonomous flight from a balloon at 15km of altitude. The experiment is part of the RexusBexus campaign for 2009. Here there is more information about the project and the team.
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Team
Successfully building a project such as SpaceFish requires knowledge in different areas. The SpaceFish team consists of people of different disciplines and several advisors and supervisors.
We are part of the Department of Computer Architecture and Automatics of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In particular, we are supported by a group with expertise in control systems and robotics.
The project is driven by:
- Héctor García de Marina — PhD Student and Team Leader
- Santiago Cifuentes — Last year PhD Student
- Fernando J. Pereda — Computer Science student
- Kamil Glebowicz — Aeronautics Engineering student
However, the group consists of the following people. These give general direction and vast support when needed:
- Prof. D. José María Girón-Sierra — UCM
- Nuno Filipe — ESA-ESTEC
- Guillermo Ortega — ESA-ESTEC
- Koni Schafroth — SmartFish
We also count with support from SmartFish designer Koni Schafroth, ESA people related to RexusBexus and lots of researchers and professors in our department.
