5 accepted papers
Small multirotors demonstrate significant potential due to their simple airframe and human-friendly operation. However, the reduced size results in substantially higher energy consumption, which severely limits their flight endurance and restricts their range of applications. Ornithopters, while off…
In this paper, a soft rotary wing robot capable of flight and control is presented. The Collapsible Airfoil Single Actuator ROtor-craft (CASARO) is a single actuator monocopter that derives its geometric properties from the Samara seed. CASARO achieves better flight efficiency, lift, and handling er
Small multirotors demonstrate significant potential due to their simple airframe and human-friendly operation. However, the reduced size results in substantially higher energy consumption, which severely limits their flight endurance and restricts their range of applications. Ornithopters, while off
In this paper, the dynamics of an emerging class of rotating nature-inspired micro aerial vehicles known as the Monocopter is proven and shown to be differentially flat. By exploiting this phenomenon, trajectory tracking can now be implemented on Monocopters via feed-forward terms that are computed…
In this letter, the design optimization and localization with sparse sensing array of range-based sensors are presented. This optimization focuses on an optimized sparse sensing array for localization and autonomous navigation in tunnel environments with right rectangular prism geometry and the auto