Flying Soft Robots
Flying manipulators are aerial drones with attached grippers or manipulator arms and belong to a recently more actively developed research area in aerial robotics. The rigid nature of these arms lack compliance, flexibility, and smoothness in movement. We propose to use a soft-bodied robotic arms or hands attached to an aerial drone to leverage the compliant and flexible behavior of the arm or hand on a drone as floating base.
Projects
- An Open-Source Soft Robotic Platform for Autonomous Aerial Manipulation in the Wild
- Autonomous Vision-based Rapid Aerial Grasping
- RAPTOR: Rapid Aerial Pickup and Transport of Objects by Robots
- Flying Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Gripper System for Aerial Object Manipulation
- Flying Soft Robotic Arm
- SMORS: A soft multirotor UAV for multimodal locomotion and robust interaction