Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer

نویسندگان

  • Jean-Christophe Zufferey
  • Antoine Beyeler
  • Dario Floreano
چکیده

Autonomous flight in cluttered environments such as houses or offices requires high maneuverability, fast mapping from sensors to actuators and extremely light overall weight. Although flying insects are well capable to solve this problem, roboticists have been at pain to reproduce such capabilities. At the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, we are taking inspiration from flying insects to progress toward this goal. The latest version of our microflyers, the MC2, takes advantage of principles found in flying insects in order to autonomously fly in a textured experiment room.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007