4 accepted papers
The design of aerial-aquatic multirotors can benefit from thruster rotation so that the thrusters can act directly in the lateral directions of surge and sway when submerged. This allows much more effective locomotion underwater as opposed to the aerial configuration where rotational acceleration is…
Hybrid aerial-aquatic vehicles have the unique ability of travelling in both air and water and can benefit from both lower fluid resistance in air and energy efficient position holding in water. However, they have to address the differing requirements which make optimising a single design difficult.…
Electric aerial propulsion systems are commonly used for many small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), providing a light and powerful method of generating thrust. In the emerging area of aerial-aquatic vehicles, most existing prototypes rely on such systems to propel themselves in both air and w…
Aerial-aquatic locomotion would allow a broad array of tasks in robot-enabled environmental monitoring or disaster management. One of the most significant challenges of aerial-aquatic locomotion in mobile robots is finding a propulsion system that is capable of working effectively in both fluids and