5 accepted papers
This paper presents a complete quadrotor aerial docking system that utilizes both vision and magnetic field guidance to achieve high-precision docking. Visual guidance is implemented using a combination of a forward-facing camera and an upward-facing camera, which provide feedback on the local and r
This paper presents a novel, compact overactuated tricopter featuring a servo-driven twisting and tilting mechanism, preventing the adverse effects of internal force contradiction during flight. Each arm’s vectored thrust is provided by a single motor, with the twisting and tilting angles controlled
Multi-agent patrolling is a key problem in a variety of domains such as intrusion detection, area surveillance, and policing, which involves repeated visits by a group of agents to specified points in an environment. While the problem is well-studied, most works do not provide performance guarantees
Existing multi-agent coordination techniques are often fragile and vulnerable to anomalies such as agent attrition and communication disturbances, which are quite common in the real-world deployment of systems like field robotics. To better prepare these systems for the real world, we present a grap…
This letter presents a novel control allocation compensator for a tilt-rotor octocopter using passive hinges, aimed at enhancing attitude control performance by accounting for the dynamic characteristics of the actuators. The introduction of a passive hinging mechanism results in a slower tilt angle