Youming Qin

2 accepted papers

2020

Gemini: A Compact Yet Efficient Bi-Copter UAV for Indoor Applications

Youming Qin, Wei Xu, Adrian Lee, Fu Zhang

RA-L 2020

Quad-copters are the premier platform for data collection tasks, yet their ability to collect data in indoor narrow spaces is severely compromised due to their huge size when carrying heavy sensors. In this letter, we study a bi-copter UAV configuration that has similar levels of versatility and imp

Cited by 78 Source ↗Scholar ↗

2020

Hybrid aerial-ground locomotion with a single passive wheel

Youming Qin, Yihang Li, Xu Wei, Fu Zhang

IROS 2020poster

Exploiting contacts with environment structures provides extra force support to a UAV, often reducing the power consumption and hence extending the mission time. This paper investigates one such way to exploit flat surfaces in the environment by a novel aerial-ground hybrid locomotion. Our design is…

Cited by 21 Source ↗Scholar ↗