GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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GRASP lab - general robotics, automation, sensing & perception laboratory at Penn

Website - grasp.upenn.edu (https://www.grasp.upenn.edu)

youtube.com/grasplab (https://www.youtube.com/grasplab)

facebook.com/GRASPLab (https://www.facebook.com/GRASPLab)

twitter.com/grasplab (https://twitter.com/grasplab)

Kodlab (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?10801) a subsidiary of the Penn Engineering GRASP Lab

Director - Charity Payne (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charity-payne-9b3b134)

Professor - Vijay Kumar (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?7484)

Spin-off - Exyn Technologies Inc. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=23917)

Projects:

Micro Bio Robots (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?14141)

Fast Lightweight Autonomy (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?13143)(FLA) program, DARPA

Titan Arm (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?4151), upper body exoskeleton

DORA (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?11142) (Dexterous Observational Roving Automaton), teleoperated robotic platform

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https://youtu.be/ol8c9bdp7YI

Avian-Inspired Grasping For Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicles

Published on Feb 7, 2013

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https://youtu.be/43RSgWRLhJc

A flying gripper based on Cuboid Modular Robots

Published on Sep 21, 2017


We present a novel flying modular platform capable of grasping and transporting objects. It is composed of four cooperative identical modules where each is based on a quadrotor within a cuboid frame with a docking mechanism. Pair of modules are able to fly independently and physically connect by matching their vertical edges forming a hinge. Four one degree of freedom (DOF) connections results in a one DOF four-bar linkage that can be used to grasp external objects.

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https://youtu.be/t9kXrhDwXf0

ModQuad: the flying modular structure that self-assembles in midair

Published on Sep 21, 2017


We introduce ModQuad, a novel flying modular robotic structure that is able to self-assemble in midair and cooperatively fly. The structure is composed by agile flying modules that can easily move in a three dimensional environment. The module is based on a quadrotor platform within a cuboid frame which allows it to attach to other modules by matching vertical faces. Using this mechanism, a ModQuad swarm is able to rapidly assemble flying structures in midair using the robot bodies as building units.