Multirotor UAVs
Quadrotor UAVs have become very popular for research and recreation because they are relatively easy to fly. This project investigates concepts in fully-actuated multi-rotor UAVs and the benefits they provide for many useful applications.
Awesome Dexterous Hexrotor YouTube Video
Dexterous Hexrotor (Richard Voyles, Engineering Technology)
The Dexterous Hexrotor is new type of fully-actuated multi-rotor suitable for aerial manipulation and search-and-rescue tasks.
The Dexterous Hexrotor is intended to be a manipulative node in a heterogeneous fabric for ubiquitous computing. Nodes in this computational fabric will contain many of the capabilities needed for a robot: computation, wireless communication, sensing, and manipulation. A novel aspect of these nodes is their capability for run-time reconfiguration (RTR) through both software and hardware. Hardware RTR is being implemented with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).
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| Dexterous Hexrotor with ultralight HexManipulator hovering. |
As part of a project sponsored by the NSF Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being (RoSe-HUB), the Dexterous Hexrotor is shown here performing a building inspection. .
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| Dexterous Hexrotor inspecting a building up close.. |
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| HexManipulator |
BoomCopter (Dave Cappelleri, Mechanical Engineering)
The BoomCopter is a novel multirotor UAV with a perpendicularly-mounted thruster on one boom that allows high speed horizontal flight and large force exertion.
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| Dave Cappelleri's BoomCopter |
Latest BoomCopter Research at the Multi-Scale Robotics and Automation Lab
Titlrotor VTOL (Shoushuai Mou, Aero/Astro Engineering)
The Tiltrotor VTOL is a novel hybrid fixed-wing tiltrotor with only two large rotors in the wing.
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| Shoushuai Mou's Tiltrotor VTOL |
RecoNode (Richard Voyles, Engineering Technology)
The RecoNode is a high-performance wireless sensing and control node for Heterogeneous Wireless Control Networks.Publications
- Jiang, G., Voyles, R. Cappelleri, D., McArthur, D., Mou, S., Yertay, A. Bean, R. Abbaraju, P., Chowdhury, A., "Purpose-Built UAVs for Physical Sampling of Trace Contamination at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant," in Waste Management (WM 2017), 43rd International Symposium on, Phoenix, AZ, Mar., 2017.
- Y. Cui, R.M. Voyles, R.A. Nawrocki, and G. Jiang, " Morphing Bus: A New Paradigm in Peripheral Interconnect Bus," in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, v. 4, n. 2, 2014, pp. 341-351.
- Y Cui, J Lane, R Voyles, A Krishnamoorthy, "A new fault tolerance method for field robotics through a self-adaptation architecture," in Proc of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2014.
- G Jiang, R Voyles, K Sebesta, H Greiner, "Mock-up of the exhaust shaft inspection by dexterous hexrotor at the DOE WIPP site," in Proc. of the IEEE Intl Symp on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2015.
- Y Cui, JT Lane, RM Voyles, "Real-time software module design framework for building self-adaptive robotic systems," in IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
- Y Cui, J Lane, R Voyles, A Krishnamoorthy, "A new fault tolerance method for field robotics through a self-adaptation architecture," in Proc of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2014.
- G Jiang, R Voyles, "A nonparallel hexrotor UAV with faster response to disturbances for precision position keeping," in IEEE Intl Symp on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2014.
- Y Cui, RM Voyles, MH Mahoor, "Refresh: A self-adaptive architecture for autonomous embedded systems," in 2013 IEEE Intl Conf on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 850-855, 2013.
- G Jiang, R Voyles, "Hexrotor UAV platform enabling dextrous interaction with structures - Preliminary work," in IEEE Intl Symp on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2012.
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Support
This project has been funded by the National Science Foundation under grant 1450342 and by the NSF RoSe-HUB Center under grant 1439717 with additioanl support from the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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