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Where to Perch in a Tree: Vision-Guidance for Tree-Grasping Drones
Alex Dunnett, Leonie Bottomley, Mirko Kovac +1
This study demonstrates a method to locate an ideal perch location on a tree for vision-guided autonomous tree-perching drones. Various image processing algorithms, including those…
Learning Agile Tensile Perching for Aerial Robots from Demonstrations
Kangle Yuan, Atar Babgei, Luca Romanello +5
Perching on structures such as trees, beams, and ledges is essential for extending the endurance of aerial robots by enabling energy conservation in standby or observation modes. A…
Features characterizing safe aerial-aquatic robots
Andrea Giordano, Luca Romanello, Diego Perez Gonzalez +2
This paper underscores the importance of environmental monitoring, and specifically of freshwater ecosystems, which play a critical role in sustaining life and global economy. Desp…
TumblerBots: Tumbling Robotic sensors for Minimally-invasive Benthic Monitoring
L. Romanello, A. Teboul, F. Wiesemuller +3
Robotic systems show significant promise for water environmental sensing applications such as water quality monitoring, pollution mapping and biodiversity data collection. Conventi…
Exploring the Potential of Multi-modal Sensing Framework for Forest Ecology
Luca Romanello, Tian Lan, Mirko Kovac +2
Forests offer essential resources and services to humanity, yet preserving and restoring them presents challenges, particularly due to the limited availability of actionable data,…
Camber-changing flapping hydrofoils for efficient and environmental-safe water propulsion system
Luca Romanello, Leonard Hohaus, David-Marian Schmitt +2
This research introduces a novel hydrofoil-based propulsion framework for unmanned aquatic robots, inspired by the undulating locomotion observed in select aquatic species. The pro…
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier +3
One of the trendsetting themes in soft robotics has been the goal of developing the ultimate universal soft robotic gripper. One that is capable of manipulating items of various sh…
Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring
Tian Lan, Luca Romanello, Mirko Kovac +2
Aerial robots show significant potential for forest canopy research and environmental monitoring by providing data collection capabilities at high spatial and temporal resolutions.…
Gotta catch 'em all, safely! Aerial-deployed soft underwater gripper
Luca Romanello, Daniel Joseph Amir, Heinrich Stengel +2
Underwater soft grippers exhibit potential for applications such as monitoring, research, and object retrieval. However, existing underwater gripping techniques frequently cause di…