Craig B. Schindler — accepted AI-conference papers

2021

Nonholonomic Yaw Control of an Underactuated Flying Robot With Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Nathan O. Lambert, Craig B. Schindler, Daniel S. Drew, Kristofer S. J. Pister

RA-L 2021

Nonholonomic control is a candidate to control nonlinear systems with path-dependant states. We investigate an underactuated flying micro-aerial-vehicle, the ionocraft, that requires nonholonomic control in the yaw-direction for complete attitude control. Deploying an analytical control law involves

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2018

Toward Controlled Flight of the Ionocraft: A Flying Microrobot Using Electrohydrodynamic Thrust With Onboard Sensing and No Moving Parts

Daniel S. Drew, Nathan O. Lambert, Craig B. Schindler, Kristofer S. J. Pister

RA-L 2018

This letter presents an insect-scale microrobot that flies silently and with no mechanical moving parts, using a mechanism with no analogue in the natural world: electrohydrodynamic thrust produced by ions generated via corona discharge. For the first time, attitude and acceleration data are continu

Cited by 67 Source ↗Scholar ↗