Mirko Kovac

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A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Mirko Kovac, Jürg Markus Germann

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with perching capabilities can be used to efficiently place sensors in aloft locations. A major challenge for perching is to build a lightweight mechanism that can be easily mounted on a MAV, allowing it to perch (attach and de ...

2010

The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that wings can be used to prolong the jumps of miniature jumping robots. However, no functional miniature jumping robot has been presented so far that can successfully apply this hybrid locomotion principle. In this publication, we pre ...

2011

Low-Cost 3D printed, Biocompatible Ionic Polymer Membranes for Soft Actuators

Mirko Kovac, Ryo Kanno

Ionic polymer actuators, in essence, consist of ion exchange polymers sandwiched between layers of electrodes. They have recently gained recognition as promising candidates for soft actuators due to their lightweight nature, noise-free operation, and low-d ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2025

A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

In nature, many animals are able to jump, upright themselves after landing and jump again. This allows them to move in unstructured and rough terrain. As a further development of our previously presented 7g jumping robot, we consider various mechanisms ena ...

2009

Gotta catch 'em all, safely! Aerial-deployed soft underwater gripper

Mirko Kovac

Underwater soft grippers exhibit potential for applications such as monitoring, research, and object retrieval. However, existing underwater gripping techniques frequently cause disturbances to ecosystems. In response to this challenge, we present a novel ...

IEEE2024

Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation

Mirko Kovac, Sukho Song, Ryo Kanno

One of the trendsetting themes in soft robotics has been the goal of developing the ultimate universal soft robotic gripper. One that is capable of manipulating items of various shapes, sizes, thicknesses, textures, and weights. All the while still being l ...

IEEE2024

Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

Jumping is used in nature by many small animals to locomote in cluttered environments or in rough terrain. It offers small systems the benefit of overcoming relatively large obstacles at a low energetic cost. In order to be able to perform repetitive jumps ...

Springer Verlag2010

RaDro: Indoor Drone Tracking Using Millimeter Wave Radar

Mirko Kovac

Core to drone design is its ability to ascertain its location by utilizing onboard inertial sensors combined with GPS data. However, GPS is not always reachable, especially in challenging environments such as indoors. This paper proposes RaDro; a system th ...

2024

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

2008

Aerial Repair and Aerial Additive Manufacturing

Mirko Kovac, Yusuf Furkan Kaya

A large number of small‐scale demonstrations of aerial building and repair have been performed in literature. Aerial additive manufacturing is proposed as a methodology for building new structures and for performing repairs in locations inaccessible by gro ...

Wiley2024