4 accepted papers
In this letter, we present Hermes - a novel, low-cost, wireless, batteryless, energy harvesting system for aerial vehicles for sensing wind speed and Angle of Attack (AoA) concurrently. Hermes comprises a set of piezoelectric films which flutter due to incoming wind and the characteristics of this a
This letter presents a novel design of an oscillatory fin for thrust-efficient and agile underwater robotic locomotion. We propose a flat paddle-fin comprising a set of overlapping cascaded soft flaps that open in one half of the stroke cycle and close in the other. Consequently, asymmetry in the la
This paper provides a real time on-board algorithm for a biplane-quadrotor to iteratively learn a forward transition maneuver via repeated flight trials. The maneuver is controlled by regulating the pitch angle and propeller thrust according to feedforward control laws that are parameterized by poly…
Compliant fish-like robots are being developed as efficient and dependable underwater observation platforms with low impact on the observed environment. Orientation control is an essential building block to achieve autonomy for those vehicles. So far, the major focus has been on rigid tails or on fl…