3 accepted papers
Sub-gram flying robots have transformative potential in applications from search and rescue to precision agriculture to environmental monitoring. However, a key gap in achieving autonomous flight for these applications is the low lift to weight ratio of flapping wing and quadrotor designs around 1 g…
Visual navigation for insect-scale robots is very challenging because in such a small scale, the size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints do not appear to permit visual navigation techniques such as SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) because they are likely to be too power-hungry. We pro…
Flapping-wing insect-scale robots (<500 mg) offer enormous potential advantages over larger robots in applications such as agricultural support, environmental monitoring, and exploration of hazardous locations or extra-terrestrial space. Scaling laws that confer advantages to smaller robots, such as…