A flying-insect-inspired hybrid robot for disaster exploration

Jin, Hu; Liang, Yuxin; Diao, Xiumin

doi:10.1109/robio.2017.8324429

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Linkages [13] and putters [25] have successfully been used to actuate deformable structures in previous studies. However, redundant components create additional weight and can lead to more failures.…”

Section: Deformable Structure Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The four arms form a circular path around the rotation axis of the deformable mechanism. Unlike in previous studies [13], proposed robot uses a unique motor for the fixed propeller, shown in Fig. 5(a) and Section III.C, to maintain the relative propeller angle in the same direction as the arm.…”

Section: A Foldable Armsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies have introduced deformable mechanisms to fold propeller to change size in the design of drones and land-air robot. However, most of these designs are based on small platforms [13], [16], since large deformations can limit actuator performance and restrict motion. As such, this study aims to develop a novel land-air robot with excellent ability to fly and drive.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Multi-modal Deformable Land-air Robot for Complex Environments

Zhang¹,

Huang²,

Huang³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Single locomotion robots often struggle to adapt in highly variable or uncertain environments, especially in emergencies. In this paper, a multi-modal deformable robot is introduced that can both fly and drive. Compatibility issues with multi-modal locomotive fusion for this hybrid land-air robot are solved using proposed design conceptions, including power settings, energy selection, and designs of deformable structure. The robot can also automatically transform between land and air modes during 3D planning and tracking. Meanwhile, we proposed a algorithms for evaluation the performance of landair robots. A series of comparisons and experiments were conducted to demonstrate the robustness and reliability of the proposed structure in complex field environments.

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Section: Deformable Structure Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Foldable Armsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Multi-modal Deformable Land-air Robot for Complex Environments

Zhang¹,

Huang²,

Huang³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Recently, various approaches have been proposed to design a terrestrial/aerial hybrid robot [3][4][5][6][7]. Some researchers added a flexible film to a quadruped robot to realize its flying ability, called Flying Rat [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The development of a novel terrestrial/aerial robot: autonomous quadrotor tilting hybrid robot

Zhang,

Xu,

Zhu

et al. 2023

Robotica

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess fast-moving abilities and have been used in various tasks in the past decades. However, their performances are still restricted by insufficient endurance and confined environments. Intuitively, combining other locomotion modes with UAVs, such as diving and driving, would be an appropriate idea to improve the robot’s adaptability and solve the endurance problem. Recently, the terrestrial/aerial hybrid robots have drawn the researchers’ eyes for their outstanding performances, which can deploy flight mode to traverse insurmountable terrains and ground mode to increase endurance and realize detailed searches. Therefore, this paper developed the autonomous quadrotor tilting hybrid robot (AQT-HR) to achieve terrestrial/aerial dual-modal mobility and verified that the robot delivers high energy efficiency. The AQT-HR can achieve flying and driving through a quadrotor tilting mechanism, which can alter one single driving force into different directions. Furthermore, the dynamic models of the hybrid robot’s aerial and ground locomotion are derived and introduced into the model-feedforward PID control algorithm for improving the robot’s flying stability. Finally, we conducted some mobility tests and experiments about traversing obstacles to demonstrate that the proposed hybrid robot can realize autonomous mode switching and perform a low energy consumption in ground movement mode.

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“…Existing constrained robotic operating environments cover a wide range including infrastructure sectors (e.g. sewer pipe [7,26], bridge [30] or HVAC inspection [3]), disaster management [13,21] and powerline inspection [24]).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

WomBot: an exploratory robot for monitoring wombat burrows

et al. 2021

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In this study we evaluate the design and efficacy of Wombot, an exploratory robot used to study environmental conditions within wombat burrows. Our purpose-built robot traverses through the difficult terrain present in wombat burrows whilst facilitating placement and retrieval of environmental data loggers. Our preliminary results suggest that the environmental conditions present within the burrows would result in a long mite survival time which shows significant risk for spreading infestations throughout a wombat population. Article Highlights Wombats live in difficult to observe burrows and suffer from mange cased by Sarcoptes scabiei. A teleoperated robot was designed to traverse the difficult terrain within burrows whilst placing and retrieving environmental loggers. Cool and humid environmental conditions within burrows suggest a relatively long mite survival time of 16–18 days

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A flying-insect-inspired hybrid robot for disaster exploration

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

A Multi-modal Deformable Land-air Robot for Complex Environments

A Multi-modal Deformable Land-air Robot for Complex Environments

The development of a novel terrestrial/aerial robot: autonomous quadrotor tilting hybrid robot

WomBot: an exploratory robot for monitoring wombat burrows

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