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Future Pathways for eVTOLs: A Design Optimization Perspective
Johannes Janning, Sophie F. Armanini, Urban Fasel
The rapid development of advanced urban air mobility, particularly electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, requires interdisciplinary approaches involving the futu…
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…
Repeatable Energy-Efficient Perching for Flapping-Wing Robots Using Soft Grippers
Krispin C. V. Broers, Sophie F. Armanini
With the emergence of new flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle (FWMAV) designs, a need for extensive and advanced mission capabilities arises. FWMAVs try to adapt and emulate the fli…
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…