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Ingenuity (helicopter)
Related publications (22)
Preliminary Design of a Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
In this report, a preliminary design study of a compact lunar reconnaissance drone module which will assist exploration rovers is presented. It is designed to assist future exploratory rover missions in difficult environments such as PSRs or extreme topogr ...
2022Mask to identify polluted periods during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition
Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini
Aerosol and trace gas measurements are strongly affected by the ship exhaust and other human activities (e.g., helicopter flights). Therefore, it is important to discriminate between clean and polluted periods. This mask provides an indication of clean per ...
2020UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset
Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have penetrated multiple domains over the past years. In GNSS-denied or indoor environments, aerial robots require a robust and stable localization system, often with external feedback, in order to fly safely. Motion ca ...
2020The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...
2019Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey
Lightweight, autonomous drones are soon expected to be used in a wide variety of tasks such as aerial surveillance, delivery, or monitoring of existing architectures. A large body of literature in robotic perception and control exists. Existing methods are ...
2018Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, 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 ...
2013Investigation of the rotor blade tip vortex by PIV and CFD
The flow field around a helicopter is dominated by strong coherent vortices originating from the blade tip as a result of the pressure difference between suction and pressure side and a high radial velocity at the tip (Leishman, 2001; Green and Acosta, 199 ...
2012Characterisation of blade tip vortices by simultaneous time-resolved velocity and density field measurements
The flow field around a helicopter is dominated by strong coherent vortices originating from the blade tip as a result of the pressure difference between suction and pressure side and a high radial velocity at the tip (Leishman, 2001; Green and Acosta, 199 ...
2012An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, 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 Inc2012Embedded ultra-low power driver for a 7.2g helicopter and IrDA remote control
In a previous project, a 7.2g helicopter made of carbon was designed and realized at the LAI. The goal of this project is to design and realize a tiny receiver and a remote capable of driving the helicopter from a distance of 2 to 4 meters. Challenges are ...
2011