Thiyagarajan Ranganathan

2 accepted papers

2018

Design and Analysis of a Novel Underwater Glider - RoBuoy

Thiyagarajan Ranganathan, Sundaravalli Aravazhi, Sambit Mishra, Asokan Thondiyath

ICRA 2018poster

Underwater gliders are special class of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) proven to be power efficient with better range and endurance compared to the conventional underwater robots. Most of the existing underwater gliders use `change of mass' based variable buoyancy (VB) method in which the ove…

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2015

Design and analysis of a novel quadrotor system - VOOPS

Ganeshram Nandakumar, Thiyagarajan Ranganathan, Arjun B.J., Asokan Thondiyath

ICRA 2015poster

This paper presents the design and analysis of a quadrotor with a novel configuration, VOOPS-Vertically Offset Overlapped Propulsion System. The objective of this configuration is to increase the payload capacity of a quadrotor without increasing the overall dimension and without compromising endura…

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