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Tethered Power for a Series of Quadcopters: Analysis and Applications
Karan P. Jain, Prasanth Kotaru, Massimiliano de Sa +2
Tethered quadcopters are used for extended flight operations where the power to the system is provided via a tether connected to an external power source. In this work, we consider…
Docking two multirotors in midair using relative vision measurements
Karan P. Jain, Minos Park, Mark W. Mueller
Modular robots have been rising in popularity for a variety of applications, and autonomous midair docking is a necessary task for real world deployment of these robots. We present…
Staging energy sources to extend flight time of a multirotor UAV
Karan P. Jain, Jerry Tang, Koushil Sreenath +1
Energy sources such as batteries do not decrease in mass after consumption, unlike combustion-based fuels. We present the concept of staging energy sources, i.e. consuming energy i…
Flying batteries: In-flight battery switching to increase multirotor flight time
Karan P. Jain, Mark W. Mueller
We present a novel approach to increase the flight time of a multirotor via mid-air docking and in-flight battery switching. A main quadcopter flying using a primary battery has a…
Predictive Control for Chasing a Ground Vehicle using a UAV
Jaeseung Byun, Karan P. Jain, Siddharth H. Nair +2
We propose a high-level planner for a multirotor to chase a ground vehicle, while simultaneously respecting various state and input constraints. Assuming a minimal kinematic model…