Avian-Inspired Grasping For Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicles
Published on Feb 7, 2013
GRASP lab - general robotics, automation, sensing & perception laboratory at Penn
Website - grasp.upenn.edu
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Kodlab a subsidiary of the Penn Engineering GRASP Lab
Director - Charity Payne
Professor - Vijay Kumar
Spin-off - Exyn Technologies Inc.
Projects:
Micro Bio Robots
Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program, DARPA
Titan Arm, upper body exoskeleton
DORA (Dexterous Observational Roving Automaton), teleoperated robotic platform
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.
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.
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