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Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones
Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Valentin Wüest +4
The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required,…
Perching by hugging: an initial feasibility study
William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Maïk Guihard +1
Current UAVs capable of perching require added structure and mechanisms to accomplish this. These take the form of hooks, claws, needles, etc which add weight and usually drag. We…
Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates
Shuhang Zhang, Bokeon Kwak, Dario Floreano
Edible robotics is an emerging research field with potential use in environmental, food, and medical scenarios. In this context, the design of edible control circuits could increas…
Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size
Fabrizio Schiano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Leonardo Cencetti +1
Cargo drones are designed to carry payloads with predefined shape, size, and/or mass. This lack of flexibility requires a fleet of diverse drones tailored to specific cargo dimensi…
Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
Bokeon Kwak, Jun Shintake, Lu Zhang +1
Drones have shown to be useful aerial vehicles for unmanned transport missions such as food and medical supply delivery. This can be leveraged to deliver life-saving nutrition and…
Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient
Nina Wiedemann, Valentin Wüest, Antonio Loquercio +3
Control design for robotic systems is complex and often requires solving an optimization to follow a trajectory accurately. Online optimization approaches like Model Predictive Con…