Title
Voliro: An Omnidirectional Hexacopter With Tiltable Rotors.
Abstract
Extending the maneuverability of unmanned areal vehicles promises to yield a considerable increase in the areas in which these systems can be used. Some such applications are the performance of more complicated inspection tasks and the generation of complex uninterrupted movements of an attached camera. In this paper we address this challenge by presenting Voliro, a novel aerial platform that combines the advantages of existing multi-rotor systems with the agility of omnidirectionally controllable platforms. We propose the use of a hexacopter with tiltable rotors allowing the system to decouple the control of position and orientation. The contributions of this work involve the mechanical design as well as a controller with the corresponding allocation scheme. This work also discusses the design challenges involved when turning the concept of a hexacopter with tiltable rotors into an actual prototype. The agility of the system is demonstrated and evaluated in real- world experiments.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Robotics
Controllability,Control engineering,Agile software development,Rotor (electric),Drone,Engineering,Maintenance engineering,Multirotor
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1801.04581
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
mina kamel17811.98
Sebastian Verling2122.98
Omar Elkhatib300.34
Christian Sprecher400.34
Paula Wulkop500.34
Zachary J. Taylor6174.60
Roland Siegwart77640551.49
Igor Gilitschenski87813.89