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The Spinning Blimp: Design and Control of a Novel Minimalist Aerial Vehicle Leveraging Rotational Dynamics and Locomotion
Leonardo Santens, Diego S. D'Antonio, Shuhang Hou +1
This paper presents the Spinning Blimp, a novel lighter-than-air (LTA) aerial vehicle designed for low-energy stable flight. Utilizing an oblate spheroid helium balloon for buoyanc…
MochiSwarm: A testbed for robotic blimps in realistic environments
Jiawei Xu, Thong Vu, Diego S. D'Antonio +1
Testing aerial robots in tasks such as pickup-and-delivery and surveillance significantly benefits from high energy efficiency and scalability of the deployed robotic system. This…
A Novel Low-Cost, Recyclable, Easy-to-Build Robot Blimp For Transporting Supplies in Hard-to-Reach Locations
Karen Li, Shuhang Hou, Matyas Negash +4
Rural communities in remote areas often encounter significant challenges when it comes to accessing emergency healthcare services and essential supplies due to a lack of adequate t…
SBlimp: Design, Model, and Translational Motion Control for a Swing-Blimp
Jiawei Xu, Diego S D'antonio, Dominic J Ammirato +1
We present an aerial vehicle composed of a custom quadrotor with tilted rotors and a helium balloon, called SBlimp. We propose a novel control strategy that takes advantage of the…
Forming and Controlling Hitches in Midair Using Aerial Robots
Diego S. D'Antonio, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David Saldaña
The use of cables for aerial manipulation has shown to be a lightweight and versatile way to interact with objects. However, fastening objects using cables is still a challenge and…
Folding Knots Using a Team of Aerial Robots
Diego S. D'Antonio, David Saldaña
From ancient times, humans have been using cables and ropes to tie, carry, and manipulate objects by folding knots. However, automating knot folding is challenging because it requi…
Modular Multi-Rotors: From Quadrotors to Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles
Jiawei Xu, Diego S. D'Antonio, David Saldaña
Traditional aerial vehicles are constrained to perform specific tasks due to their adhoc designs. Based on modularity, we propose a versatile robot, H-ModQuad, that can adapt to di…
H-ModQuad: Modular Multi-Rotors with 4, 5, and 6 Controllable DOF
Jiawei Xu, Diego S. D'Antonio, David Saldaña
Traditional aerial vehicles are usually custom-designed for specific tasks. Although they offer an efficient solution, they are not always able to adapt to changes in the task spec…
The Catenary Robot: Design and Control of a Cable Propelled by Two Quadrotors
Diego S. D'antonio, Gustavo A. Cardona, David Saldaña
Transporting objects using aerial robots has been widely studied in the literature. Still, those approaches always assume that the connection between the quadrotor and the load is…
Resilient Task Allocation in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems
Siddharth Mayya, Diego S. D'antonio, David Saldaña +1
For a multi-robot system equipped with heterogeneous capabilities, this paper presents a mechanism to allocate robots to tasks in a resilient manner when anomalous environmental co…