A collision-resilient aerial vehicle with icosahedron tensegrity structure

J Zha, X Wu, J Kroeger, N Perez… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
J Zha, X Wu, J Kroeger, N Perez, MW Mueller
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and …, 2020ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial vehicles with collision resilience can operate with more confidence in environments
with obstacles that are hard to detect and avoid. This paper presents the methodology used
to design a collision resilient aerial vehicle with icosahedron tensegrity structure. A
simplified stress analysis of the tensegrity frame under impact forces is performed to guide
the selection of its components. In addition, an autonomous controller is presented to
reorient the vehicle from an arbitrary orientation on the ground to help it take off …
Aerial vehicles with collision resilience can operate with more confidence in environments with obstacles that are hard to detect and avoid. This paper presents the methodology used to design a collision resilient aerial vehicle with icosahedron tensegrity structure. A simplified stress analysis of the tensegrity frame under impact forces is performed to guide the selection of its components. In addition, an autonomous controller is presented to reorient the vehicle from an arbitrary orientation on the ground to help it take off. Experiments show that the vehicle can successfully reorient itself after landing upside-down and can survive collisions with speed up to 6.5m/s.
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