4 papers
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…
Unified Perceptive Fall Safety for Humanoids
Osher Azulay, Zhengjie Xu, Andrew Scheffer +1
Reliable fall recovery is critical for humanoids operating in cluttered environments. Unlike quadrupeds or wheeled robots, humanoids undergo high-energy impacts, complex whole-body…
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. Díaz 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…