Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 38-48Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2016.2623346
Keywords
Climbing; failure recovery; mechanisms; micro air vehicles (MAVs); microspines; perching; takeoff; unstructured environments
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Funding
- NSF [IIS-1161679]
- ARL MAST [MCE 15-4]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [1161679] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Perching can extend the useful mission life of a micro air vehicle. Once perched, climbing allows it to reposition precisely, with low power draw and without regard for weather conditions. We present the Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering Platform, which is to our knowledge the first robot capable of flying, perching with passive technology on outdoor surfaces, climbing, and taking off again. We present the mechanical design and the new perching, climbing, and takeoff strategies that allow us to perform these tasks on surfaces such as concrete and stucco, without the aid of a motion capture system or off-board computation. We further discuss two new capabilities uniquely available to a hybrid aerial-scansorial robot: the ability to recover gracefully from climbing failures and the ability to increase usable foothold density through the application of aerodynamic forces. We alsomeasure real power consumption for climbing, flying, and monitoring and discuss how future platforms could be improved for longer mission life.
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