Artículo
Winged Aerial Manipulation Robot with Dual Arm and Tail
Autor/es | Suárez Fernández-Miranda, Alejandro
Grau, Pedro Heredia Benot, Guillermo Ollero Baturone, Aníbal |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática |
Fecha de publicación | 2020-07 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-02-11 |
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Resumen | This paper presents the design and development of a winged aerial robot with bimanual
manipulation capabilities, motivated by the current limitations of aerial manipulators based on
multirotor platforms in terms of safety ... This paper presents the design and development of a winged aerial robot with bimanual manipulation capabilities, motivated by the current limitations of aerial manipulators based on multirotor platforms in terms of safety and range/endurance. Since the combination of gliding and flapping wings is more energy e cient in forward flight, we propose a new morphology that exploits this feature and allows the realization of dexterous manipulation tasks once the aerial robot has landed or perched. The paper describes the design, development, and aerodynamic analysis of this winged aerial manipulation robot (WAMR), consisting of a small-scale dual arm used for manipulating and as a morphing wing. The arms, fuselage, and tail are covered by a nylon cloth that acts as a cap, similar to a kite. The three joints of the arms (shoulder yaw and pitch, elbow pitch) can be used to control the surface area and orientation and thus the aerodynamic wrenches induced over the cloth. The proposed concept design is extended to a flapping-wing aerial robot built with smart servo actuators and a similar frame structure, allowing the generation of di erent flapping patterns exploiting the embedded servo controller. Experimental and simulation results carried out with these two prototypes evaluate the manipulation capability and the possibility of gliding and flying. |
Agencias financiadoras | European Research Council (ERC) European Union (UE) Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO). España |
Identificador del proyecto | Acción 788247
H2020-2019-871479 DPI2017-89790-R RTI2018-102224-B-I00 |
Cita | Suárez Fernández-Miranda, A., Grau, P., Heredia Benot, G. y Ollero Baturone, A. (2020). Winged Aerial Manipulation Robot with Dual Arm and Tail. Applied Sciences, 10 (14). Article number 4783. |
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