6 accepted papers
Flapping-wing aerial robots offer significant advantages over conventional multirotors, including lower noise signatures, higher energy efficiency, and enhanced maneuverability. Despite these benefits, their application in surveillance, particularly person detection and tracking, remains largely und
The flapping-wing robotic birds were inspired by nature to present an alternative way of thrust and lift generation instead of conventional high-speed rotary propellers in unmanned aerial platforms. The advances in flapping technology recently led to the prototyping of leg-claw mechanisms for perchi
This paper presents the design, development, and validation of a fully autonomous dual-arm aerial robot capable of mapping, localizing, planning, and grasping parcels in an intra-logistics scenario. The aerial robot is intended to operate in a scenario comprising several supply points, delivery poin
The state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) is a nonlinear optimal controller with a flexible structure which is one of the main advantages of this method. Here in this work, this flexibility is used to present a novel design for handling a soft constraint for state variables (trajectories). The con…
Autonomous flight of flapping-wing robots is a major challenge for robot perception. Most of the previous <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">sense-and-avoid</i> works have studied the problem of obstacle avoidance for flapping-wing robot
The development of automatic perception systems and techniques for bio-inspired flapping-wing robots is severely hampered by the high technical complexity of these platforms and the installation of onboard sensors and electronics. Besides, flapping-wing robot perception suffers from high vibration l