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Shared-Control Teleoperation of Omnidirectional Aerial Robots for Continuous Valve Rotation
Jinjie Li, Yicheng Chen, Haokun Liu +1
Omnidirectional aerial robots offer full 6-DoF independent control over position and orientation, making them popular for aerial manipulation. Although there have been advancements…
Effector-Centric NMPC of Tiltable-Multirotors for Offset-Free Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation
Jinjie Li, Yicheng Chen, Johannes Kübel +3
Aerial manipulation extends robotic operations to previously inaccessible aerial environments. Unlike arm-equipped aerial systems, tiltable-multirotors can directly generate six-de…
Hybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task
Zicheng Luo, Maolin Lei, Jinjie Li +3
Multi-link aerial robots can actively deform their articulated structures during flight, giving them strong potential for aerial manipulation. However, they still face substantial…
CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation
Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen +5
Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action…
Self-assembling Modular Aerial Robot for Versatile Aerial Tasks
Junichiro Sugihara, Masaki Kitagawa, Jinjie Li +4
Multirotor aerial robots excel at maneuvering in three-dimensional space, and recent advances enable nimble navigation in cluttered and confined environments, especially for small…
CoFL: Continuous Flow Fields for Language-Conditioned Navigation
Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen +5
Existing language-conditioned navigation systems typically rely on modular pipelines or trajectory generators, but the latter use each scene--instruction annotation mainly to super…
Design, Modeling and Direction Control of a Wire-Driven Robotic Fish Based on a 2-DoF Crank-Slider Mechanism
Yita Wang, Chen Chen, Yicheng Chen +5
Robotic fish have attracted growing attention in recent years owing to their biomimetic design and potential applications in environmental monitoring and biological surveys. Among…
Hierarchical Trajectory Planning of Floating-Base Multi-Link Robot for Maneuvering in Confined Environments
Yicheng Chen, Jinjie Li, Haokun Liu +3
Floating-base multi-link robots can change their shape during flight, making them well-suited for applications in confined environments such as autonomous inspection and search and…
Learning End-to-End Control for Omnidirectional Aerial Motion on Overactuated Tilt-rotor Quadrotors
Wentao Zhang, Zhaoqi Ma, Jinjie Li +8
While reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to conventional quadrotors for agile and robust flight, whether actuator-level RL can be reliably deployed on tilt-r…
Flexible Morphing Aerial Robot with Inflatable Structure for Perching-based Human-Robot Interaction
Ayano Miyamichi, Moju Zhao, Kazuki Sugihara +5
Birds in nature perform perching not only for rest but also for interaction with human such as the relationship with falconers. Recently, researchers achieve perching-capable aeria…
Six-DoF Hand-Based Teleoperation for Omnidirectional Aerial Robots
Jinjie Li, Jiaxuan Li, Kotaro Kaneko +3
Omnidirectional aerial robots offer full 6-DoF independent control over position and orientation, making them popular for aerial manipulation. Although advancements in robotic auto…
Falconry-like palm landing by a flapping-wing drone based on the human gesture interaction and distance-aware flight planning
Kazuki Numazato, Keiichiro Kan, Masaki Kitagawa +3
Flapping-wing drones have attracted significant attention due to their biomimetic flight. They are considered more human-friendly due to their characteristics such as low noise and…
Hierarchical Language Models for Semantic Navigation and Manipulation in an Aerial-Ground Robotic System
Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yunong Li +4
Heterogeneous multirobot systems show great potential in complex tasks requiring coordinated hybrid cooperation. However, existing methods that rely on static or task-specific mode…
Adaptive Perching and Grasping by Aerial Robot with Light-weight and High Grip-force Tendon-driven Three-fingered Hand using Single Actuator
Hisaaki Iida, Junichiro Sugihara, Kazuki Sugihara +4
In previous research, various types of aerial robots equipped with perching mechanisms have been developed to extend operational time. However, most existing perching methods adopt…
Vectorable Thrust Control for Multimodal Locomotion of Quadruped Robot SPIDAR
Moju Zhao
In this paper, I present vectorable thrust control for different locomotion modes by a novel quadruped robot, SPIDAR, equipped with vectoring rotor in each link. First, the robot's…
Servo Integrated Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Overactuated Tiltable-Quadrotors
Jinjie Li, Junichiro Sugihara, Moju Zhao
Utilizing a servo to tilt each rotor transforms quadrotors from underactuated to overactuated systems, allowing for independent control of both attitude and position, which provide…
BEATLE -- Self-Reconfigurable Aerial Robot: Design, Control and Experimental Validation
Junichiro Sugihara, Moju Zhao, Takuzumi Nishio +2
Modular self-reconfigurable robots (MSRRs) offer enhanced task flexibility by constructing various structures suitable for each task. However, conventional terrestrial MSRRs equipp…
Design, Control, and Motion Strategy for DELTA: Transformable Multilink Multirotor for Air-Ground Hybrid Locomotion and Manipulation
Kazuki Sugihara, Moju Zhao, Takuzumi Nishio +2
In recent years, multimodal locomotion capabilities have enabled robots to maneuver in both terrestrial and aerial domains. However, most of these robots are designed only for loco…
Design and Control of a Small Humanoid Equipped with Flight Unit and Wheels for Multimodal Locomotion
Kazuki Sugihara, Moju Zhao, Takuzumi Nishio +3
Humanoids are versatile robotic platforms owing to their limbs with multiple degrees of freedom. Although humanoids can walk like humans, they are relatively slow, and cannot run o…
Design, Control, and Motion Strategy of TRADY: Tilted-Rotor-Equipped Aerial Robot With Autonomous In-Flight Assembly and Disassembly Ability
Junichiro Sugihara, Takuzumi Nishio, Keisuke Nagato +2
In previous research, various types of aerial robots were developed to improve maneuverability or manipulation abilities. However, there was a challenge in achieving both mobility…
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…
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…
Circus ANYmal: A Quadruped Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Its Limbs
Fan Shi, Timon Homberger, Joonho Lee +6
Quadrupedal robots are skillful at locomotion tasks while lacking manipulation skills, not to mention dexterous manipulation abilities. Inspired by the animal behavior and the dual…