8 accepted papers
This paper presents the design, modeling, and motion control of BiSTAC, a novel hybrid terrestrial–aerial vehicle. BiSTAC features an innovative configuration that integrates a bicopter propeller system with a flexible bipedal locomotion mechanism, thereby enabling both bicopter flight and bipedal w
This letter concentrates on the development of Chat-PM, a class of composite hybrid aerial/terrestrial manipulator, in concern with composite configuration design, dynamics modeling, motion control and force estimation. Compared with existing aerial or terrestrial mobile manipulators, Chat-PM demons
Traditional autonomous driving methods adopt modular design, decomposing tasks into sub-tasks, including perception, prediction, planning, and control. In contrast, end-to-end autonomous driving directly outputs actions from raw sensor data, avoiding error accumulation. However, training an end-to-e…
There has been a surge of interest in applying deep learning in particle and nuclear physics to replace labor-intensive offline data analysis with automated online machine learning tasks. This paper details a novel AI-enabled triggering solution for physics experiments in Relativistic Heavy Ion Coll…
Grasping lightweight objects with aerial manipulators remains challenging due to the rotorwash interference caused by spinning rotor blades. This letter details a rotorwash-aware motion planning method for Chat-PM, a hybrid aerial-terrestrial vehicle equipped with a robotic arm. With proposed method
In this study, an NMPC-based planning approach is proposed for Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotors (HyTAQs) to achieve safe and efficient hybrid locomotion in unknown environments. The approach ensures bimodal dynamic feasibility and fully exploits the high efficiency and accessibility of HyTAQ
In this study, a topology-guided unified nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) approach is proposed for autonomous navigation of a class of Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotors (HyTAQs) in unknown environments. The approach can fully exploit the hybrid terrestrial-aerial locomotion of the ve…
This work details the design, modeling and control of SytaB, a vehicle capable of hybrid terrestrial/aerial mobility with smooth transition, where the structure embedding a bicopter is adopted for the first time. In contrast to previous hybrid terrestrial/aerial vehicles with a quadrotor embedded, S