Publications (5)
Sensing and Navigation of Aerial Robot for Measuring Tree Location and Size in Forest Environment
Tomoki Anzai, Moju Zhao, Fan Shi +2
This paper shows the achievement of a sensing and navigation system of aerial robot for measuring location and size of trees in a forest environment autonomously. Although forestry…
Design, Modeling and Control of a Quadruped Robot SPIDAR: Spherically Vectorable and Distributed Rotors Assisted Air-Ground Amphibious Quadruped Robot
Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Takuzumi Nishio
Multimodal locomotion capability is an emerging topic in robotics field, and various novel mobile robots have been developed to enable the maneuvering in both terrestrial and aeria…
Deep Gated Multi-modal Learning: In-hand Object Pose Changes Estimation using Tactile and Image Data
Tomoki Anzai, Kuniyuki Takahashi
For in-hand manipulation, estimation of the object pose inside the hand is one of the important functions to manipulate objects to the target pose. Since in-hand manipulation tends…
Versatile Multilinked Aerial Robot with Tilting Propellers: Design, Modeling, Control and State Estimation for Autonomous Flight and Manipulation
Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Fan Shi +6
Multilinked aerial robot is one of the state-of-the-art works in aerial robotics, which demonstrates the deformability benefiting both maneuvering and manipulation. However, the pe…
Singularity-free Aerial Deformation by Two-dimensional Multilinked Aerial Robot with 1-DoF Vectorable Propeller
Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Kei Okada +1
Two-dimensional multilinked structures can benefit aerial robots in both maneuvering and manipulation because of their deformation ability. However, certain types of singular forms…