A Mesoscale Robot that can Run, Fly, and Grasp
The agility and ease of control make a quadrotor aircraft an attractive platform for studying swarm behavior, modeling, and control. The energetics of sustained flight for small aircraft, however, limit typical applications to only a few minutes. Adding payloads – and the mechanisms used to manipulate them – reduces this flight time even further. To solve this problem, we envisioned, designed and fabricated a novel robot platform having three main capabilities: walking, grasping, and flight.Compute |
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Sensors |
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Communication Link |
900MHz Zigbee 802.15.4
or 2.4 GHz nRF |
Propulsion System |
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Power |
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Dimensions | 65mm diagonal motor-motor |
All up Weight | 30g |