4 accepted papers
Mobile robots have revolutionized various fields, offering solutions for manipulation, environmental monitoring, and exploration. However, payload capacity remains a limitation. This paper presents a novel thrust-based robotic hopper capable of carrying payloads up to 9 times its own weight while ma…
This letter reports an aerial robot–Quadrolltor, with the ability to roll and turn. Existing bimodal quadrotors feature cylindrical rolling cages that are rotationally decoupled from the robot's main rigid body. In contrast, the proposed robot employs passively reconfigurable structures to enable th
Traditional fixed-wing vehicles are equipped with multiple active aerodynamic surfaces for flight control. This inevitably necessitates several actuators, complicates the mechanical structure, and adversely impacts the flight efficiency, particularly for small aerial vehicles. As a lightweight and e
The letter proposes a passive wall following strategy for a multirotor robot based on the aerodynamic interaction between the propeller wake and the vertical surface. To reinforce the proximity effects, a vehicle with tilted and ducted propellers is introduced. Momentum theory is employed to elucida