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TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-scale Robots
Zhitao Yu, Joshua Tran, Claire Li +3
In this paper, we introduce advances in the sensor suite of an autonomous flying insect robot (FIR) weighing less than a gram. FIRs, because of their small weight and size, offer u…
A flexured-gimbal 3-axis force-torque sensor reveals minimal cross-axis coupling in an insect-sized flapping-wing robot
Aaron Weber, Daksh Dhingra, Sawyer B. Fuller
The mechanical complexity of flapping wings, their unsteady aerodynamic flow, and challenge of making measurements at the scale of a sub-gram flapping-wing flying insect robot (FIR…
Modeling and LQR Control of Insect Sized Flapping Wing Robot
Daksh Dhingra, Kadierdan Kaheman, Sawyer B. Fuller
Flying insects can perform rapid, sophisticated maneuvers like backflips, sharp banked turns, and in-flight collision recovery. To emulate these in aerial robots weighing less than…
Probabilistic Localization of Insect-Scale Drones on Floating-Gate Inverter Arrays
Priyesh Shukla, Ankith Muralidhar, Nick Iliev +3
We propose a novel compute-in-memory (CIM)-based ultra-low-power framework for probabilistic localization of insect-scale drones. The conventional probabilistic localization approa…
RoboFly: An insect-sized robot with simplified fabrication that is capable of flight, ground, and water surface locomotion
Yogesh M Chukewad, Johannes James, Avinash Singh +1
Aerial robots the size of a honeybee (~100 mg) have advantages over larger robots because of their small size, low mass and low materials cost. Previous iterations have demonstrate…
A laser-microfabricated electrohydrodynamic thruster for centimeter-scale aerial robots
Hari Krishna Hari Prasad, Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Yogesh M Chukewad +3
To date, insect scale robots capable of controlled flight have used flapping wings for generating lift, but this requires a complex and failure-prone mechanism. A simpler alternati…