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Design and Implementation of an Ultra-Low-Cost Wall-Climbing Robot for Infrastructure Crack Detection
Mrinmoy Modak, Supreyo Chakravorty Pretom, Shourv Tarafder +1
Crack detection is a crucial process to ensure the safety and longevity of buildings and other infrastructure. In this paper, we developed a low-cost, automated crack detection rob…
Hoverflie: An empirical investigation of rotor shrouds to transform micro air vehicles into multi-modal hovercraft
Mrinmoy Modak, Daniel S. Drew
Small rotorcraft intended for use indoors or around the built environment have extremely limited flight duration. This paper presents the design and experimental characterization o…
Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects
C. Luke Nelson, Grant Nations, Mrinmoy Modak +1
Electroaerodynamic propulsion is compelling for use in micro air vehicles due to its silent and solid-state nature, but its limited efficiency has thus far precluded a path towards…
Jet impingement cooling with multi-stage ducted electroaerodynamic actuators
Quinna Nguyen, C. Luke Nelson, Daniel S. Drew
Modern high-performance mobile electronics impose extreme constraints on thermal management, and traditional cooling methods often fail to meet requirements for power density, form…
Discovery and Deployment of Emergent Robot Swarm Behaviors via Representation Learning and Real2Sim2Real Transfer
Connor Mattson, Varun Raveendra, Ricardo Vega +3
Given a swarm of limited-capability robots, we seek to automatically discover the set of possible emergent behaviors. Prior approaches to behavior discovery rely on human feedback…
Empirical Study of Ceiling Proximity Effects and Electrostatic Adhesion for Small-scale Electroaerodynamic Thrusters
C. Luke Nelson, Grant Nations, Daniel S. Drew
Electroaerodynamic propulsion, where force is produced via the momentum-transferring collisions between accelerated ions and neutral air molecules, is a promising alternative mecha…
Empirical Study of Ground Proximity Effects for Small-scale Electroaerodynamic Thrusters
Grant Nations, C. Luke Nelson, Daniel S. Drew
Electroaerodynamic (EAD) propulsion, where thrust is produced by collisions between electrostatically-accelerated ions and neutral air, is a potentially transformative method for i…