4 papers
MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency
Jose Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Xu +17
Infrastructure maintenance, contact-based inspection, and emergency response can benefit from aerial vehicles that act as a flying human hand with extreme maneuverability, manipula…
VIGOR: Visual Goal-In-Context Inference for Unified Humanoid Fall Safety
Osher Azulay, Zhengjie Xu, Andrew Scheffer +1
Reliable fall recovery is critical for humanoids operating in cluttered environments. Unlike quadrupeds or wheeled robots, humanoids experience high-energy impacts, complex whole-b…
ShipwreckFinder: A QGIS Tool for Shipwreck Detection in Multibeam Sonar Data
Anja Sheppard, Tyler Smithline, Andrew Scheffer +5
In this paper, we introduce ShipwreckFinder, an open-source QGIS plugin that detects shipwrecks from multibeam sonar data. Shipwrecks are an important historical marker of maritime…
MorphEUS: Morphable Omnidirectional Unmanned System
Ivan Bao, José C. DÃaz Peón González Pacheco, Atharva Navsalkar +5
Omnidirectional aerial vehicles (OMAVs) have opened up a wide range of possibilities for inspection, navigation, and manipulation applications using drones. In this paper, we intro…