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MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency
Jose Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, Jiawei Xu, Andrew Zhao +7
Infrastructure maintenance, contact-based inspection, and emergency response can benefit from aerial vehicles that act as a flying human hand with extreme maneuverability, manipula…
AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs
Jiawei Xu, Longsen Gao, Rafael Fierro +1
The interaction of robots with bendable objects in midair presents significant challenges in control, often resulting in performance degradation and potential crashes, especially f…
From Ellipsoids to Midair Control of Dynamic Hitches
Jiawei Xu, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David Saldaña
The ability to manipulate and interlace cables using aerial vehicles can greatly improve aerial transportation tasks. Such interlacing cables create hitches by winding two or more…
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…
Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interactions: A Survey
Jiawei Xu
Research on Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has experienced remarkable advancements over the past two decades, propelling the field forward at an accelerated pace. Through the i…
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…
Toward Fine Contact Interactions: Learning to Control Normal Contact Force with Limited Information
Jinda Cui, Jiawei Xu, David Saldaña +1
Dexterous manipulation of objects through fine control of physical contacts is essential for many important tasks of daily living. A fundamental ability underlying fine contact con…
Finding Optimal Modular Robots for Aerial Tasks
Jiawei Xu, David Saldaña
Traditional aerial vehicles have limitations in their capabilities due to actuator constraints, such as motor saturation. The hardware components and their arrangement are designed…
PogoDrone: Design, Model, and Control of a Jumping Quadrotor
Brian Zhu, Jiawei Xu, Andrew Charway +1
We present a design, model, and control for a novel jumping-flying robot that is called PogoDrone. The robot is composed of a quadrotor with a passive mechanism for jumping. The ro…
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…