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Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adam Klaptocz, Mirko Kovac, Jürg Markus Germann

Many environments where robots are expected to operate are cluttered with objects, walls, debris, and different horizontal and vertical structures. In this chapter, we present four design features that allow small robots to rapidly and safely move in 3 dim ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2016

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler, Arnaud Garnier, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aerial flying vehicle comprising an inner frame, a gimbal system and an outer frame, the inner frame comprising a propulsion system and a control system, the propulsion system being able to generate a lift force. The ...

2014

Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler

This paper addresses the problem of adequately protecting flying robots from damage resulting from collisions that may occur when exploring constrained and cluttered environments. A method for designing protective structures to meet the specific constraint ...

2013

Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Arnaud Garnier, Marco Pagnamenta, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Autonomous navigation in obstacle-dense indoor environments is very challenging for flying robots due to the high risk of collisions, which may lead to mechanical damage of the platform and eventual failure of the mission. While conventional approaches in ...

2013

A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive

Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler, Metin Sitti

Robots capable of hover flight in constrained indoor environments have many applications, however their range is constrained by the high energetic cost of airborne locomotion. Perching allows flying robots to scan their environment without the need to rema ...

2013

The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz

Research made over the past decade shows the use of increasingly complex methods and heavy platforms to achieve autonomous flight in cluttered environments. However, efficient behaviors can be found in nature where limited sensing is used, such as in insec ...

2012

An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler

Flying robots have unique advantages in the exploration of cluttered environments such as caves or collapsed buildings. Current systems however have difficulty in dealing with the large amount of obstacles inherent to such environments. Collisions with obs ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery

Adam Klaptocz

Flying robots have the unique advantage of being able to move through the air unaffected by the obstacles or precipices below them. This ability quickly becomes a disadvantage, however, as the amount of free space is reduced and the risk of collisions incr ...

EPFL2012

An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Grégoire Boutinard Rouelle

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 fly ...

IEEE2010

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Alcherio Martinoli, Dario Floreano, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, Christopher Cianci, James Pugh, Adam Klaptocz

Mobile robots have the potential to become the ideal tool to teach a broad range of engineering disciplines. Indeed, mobile robots are getting increasingly complex and accessible. They embed elements from diverse ﬁelds such as mechanics, digital electronic ...

IPCB: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco2009

A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Dario Floreano, Antoine Beyeler, Adam Klaptocz

We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of freely flying within houses or small built environments while avoiding collisions. Our latest prototype is a fixed-wing aircraft weighing a mere 10 g, flying around 1.5 m/s and carrying the ...

2007

A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Dario Floreano, Antoine Beyeler, Adam Klaptocz

We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. Our latest prototype is a fixed-wing aircraft weighing a mere 10 g, flying around 1.5 m/s and carrying the necessary electronics for air ...

IEEE2006