Title
An indoor flying platform with collision robustness and self-recovery
Abstract
This paper presents a new paradigm in the design of indoor flying robots that replaces collision avoidance with collision robustness. Indoor flying robots must operate within constrained and cluttered environments where even nature's most sophisticated flyers such as insects cannot avoid all obstacles and should thus be able to withstand collisions and recover from them autonomously. A prototype platform specifically designed to withstand collisions and recover without human intervention is presented. Its dimensions are optimized to fulfill the varying constraints of aerodynamics, robustness and self-recovery, and new construction techniques focusing on shock absorption are presented. Finally, the platform is tested both in-flight and during collisions to characterize its collision robustness and self-recovery capability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerospace robotics,collision avoidance,mobile robots,self-adjusting systems,aerodynamics,collision avoidance,collision robustness,indoor flying robot,self-recovery capability,shock absorption
Self recovery,Simulation,Robustness (computer science),Collision,Control engineering,Shock absorber,Engineering,Robot,Aerospace robotics,Mobile robot,Aerodynamics
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010
1
1050-4729 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5040-4
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5040-4
3
0.61
References 
Authors
7
6