単一パッシブホイールによる空陸ハイブリッド移動
Hybrid aerial ground locomotion with a single passive wheel
UAVの底部に単一のパッシブホイールを取り付ける最小設計で、飛行と地上走行を切り替える空陸ハイブリッド移動を実現し、地上走行時に最大77%のバッテリー消費を削減できることを飛行実験で示した。
著者: Youming Qin, Yihang Li, Xu Wei, Fu Zhang
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Exploiting contacts with environment structures provides extra force support to a UAV, often reducing the power consumption and hence extending the mission time. This paper investigates one such way to exploit flat surfaces in the environment by a novel aerial-ground hybrid locomotion. Our design is a single passive wheel integrated at the UAV bottom, serving a minimal design to date. We present the principle and implementation of such a simple design as well as its control. Flight experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility and the power saving caused by the ground locomotion. Results show that our minimal design allows successful aerial-ground hybrid locomotion even with a less-controllable bi-copter UAV. The ground locomotion saves up to 77% battery without much tuning effort.
