Publications by Mohammad Askari

Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Dario Floreano, Raphael Zufferey, Simon Jeger, William John Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Omar Aloui

Flying robots are becoming increasingly widespread, not only as remote‐vision agents but also as tools capable of physically interacting with our world. As robots fly closer to obstacles, the likelihood of collision rises. While collision resilience soluti ...

Wiley2025

Multifunctional Wings and Appendages for Flight, Perching, and Locomotion

Mohammad Askari

This thesis explores innovative multifunctional designs for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to achieve multimodal capabilities. Current robotic platforms often struggle in complex environments, necessitating a more adaptive and versatile approach. Drawing ...

EPFL2024

Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Hoang Vu Phan, Mohammad Askari

Perching with winged Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has often been solved by means of complex control or intricate appendages. Here, we present a method that relies on passive wing morphing for crash-landing on trees and other types of vertical poles. Inspired b ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking

Dario Floreano, Won Dong Shin, William John Stewart, Mohammad Askari

Multimodal unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are rarely capable of more than two modalities, i.e., flying and walking or flying and perching. However, being able to fly, perch, and walk could further improve their usefulness by expanding their operating enve ...

2023