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Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

An aerial vehicle including self-autonomous deployable arms and methods of deploying the vehicle are disclosed. The arms may include patterns located thereon that allow the arms to transition between wrapped, flat, and deployed configurations autonomously ...

2016

Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

Ludovic Daler

There is a growing interest in using robots in dangerous environments, such as for exploration, search-and-rescue or monitoring applications, in order to reduce the risks for workers or rescuers and to improve their efficiency. Typically, flying robots off ...

EPFL2015

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

With the aim to extend the versatility and adaptability of robots in complex environments, a novel multi-modal flying and walking robot is presented. The robot consists of a flying wing with adaptive morphology that can perform both long distance flight an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Louis Lazare Saint-Raymond

Aerial robots provide valuable support in several high-risk scenarios thanks to their capability to quickly fly to locations dangerous or even inaccessible to humans. In order to fully benefit from these features, aerial robots should be easy to transport ...

2015

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Ludovic Daler, Arnaud Garnier

A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aerial flying vehicle comprising an inner frame, a gimbal system and an outer frame, the inner frame comprising a propulsion system and a control system, the propulsion system being able to generate a lift force. The ...

2014

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

Dario Floreano, Ilya Loshchilov, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Andrea Maesani, Ludovic Daler, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Titus Cieslewski, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Deniz Aydin, Pradeep Ruben Fernando

Science instructors from a wide range of disciplines agree that hands-on laboratory components of courses are pedagogically necessary (Freedman, 1997). However, certain shortcomings of current laboratory exercises have been pointed out by several authors ( ...

The MIT Press2014

Euler 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 ...

2013

A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Julien Jean Denis Nicolas Lecoeur, Patrizia Bernadette Hählen

Most existing robots are designed to exploit only one single locomotion mode, such as rolling, walking, flying, swimming, or jumping, which limits their flexibility and adaptability to different environments where specific and different locomotion capabili ...

2013

A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive

Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler, Metin Sitti

Robots capable of hover flight in constrained indoor environments have many applications, however their range is constrained by the high energetic cost of airborne locomotion. Perching allows flying robots to scan their environment without the need to rema ...

2013

An 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 Inc2012