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SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms
Charbel Toumieh, Niel Mistry, Benjamin Jarvis +4
Aerial robot swarms have the potential to transform time-critical safety, security, and search-and-rescue operations. By coordinating multiple robots, they can rapidly survey disas…
Flying Together: Human-Guided Immersive Shared Control for Aerial Robot Teams in Unknown Environments
Lou De Bel-Air, Luca Morando, Ruitao Chen +7
While autonomous multi-robots can achieve safe and coordinated navigation, they often struggle to adapt to unforeseen conditions and to capture operator-driven objectives in unstru…
Accurate Trajectory Tracking with Model Predictive Contouring Control for Bird-Scale Flapping-Wing MAVs
Charbel Toumieh, Jack Zeng, Niel Mistry +1
Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles offer quieter and safer operation than rotary-wing drones, yet achieving precise autonomous control of bird-scale ornithopters remains challengi…
Flight through Narrow Gaps with Morphing-Wing Drones
Julius Wanner, Hoang-Vu Phan, Charbel Toumieh +1
The size of a narrow gap traversable by a fixed-wing drone is limited by its wingspan. Inspired by birds, here, we enable the traversal of a gap of sub-wingspan width and height us…
Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs
Won Dong Shin, Hoang-Vu Phan, Monica A. Daley +2
Most birds can navigate seamlessly between aerial and terrestrial environments. Whereas the forelimbs evolved into wings primarily for flight, the hindlimbs serve diverse functions…
Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Hoang-Vu Phan, Hoon Cheol Park, Dario Floreano
Birds, bats and many insects can tuck their wings against their bodies at rest and deploy them to power flight. Whereas birds and bats use well-developed pectoral and wing muscles…
Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot
Mohammad Askari, Michele Benciolini, Hoang-Vu Phan +3
Perching with winged Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has often been solved by means of complex control or intricate appendages. Here, we present a simple yet novel method that relies on p…
Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking
Mohammad Askari, Won Dong Shin, Damian Lenherr +2
Multimodal UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are rarely capable of more than two modalities, i.e., flying and walking or flying and perching. However, being able to fly, perch, and w…