Vitesses caractéristiques

A Lightweight Device for Energy Harvesting from Power Lines with a Fixed-Wing UAV

Modern UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) suffer from restrictions in flight range and time due to battery capacity limitations. One way to overcome these limitations is to harvest energy from overhead power lines. A growing body of scientific literature has ...

IEEE2022

Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Enrico Ajanic, Flavio Noca

The aerodynamic designs of winged drones are optimized for specific flight regimes. Large lifting surfaces provide maneuverability and agility but result in larger power consumption, and thus lower range, when flying fast compared with small lifting surfac ...

2020

Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Maja Varga

The success of swarm behaviors often depends on the range at which robots can communicate and the speed at which they change their behavior. Challenges arise when the communication range is too small with respect to the dynamics of the robot, preventing in ...

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A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Adam Klaptocz

We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of freely flying within houses or small built environments while avoiding collisions. Our latest prototype is a fixed-wing aircraft weighing a mere 10 g, flying around 1.5 m/s and carrying the ...

2007

A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Adam Klaptocz

We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. Our latest prototype is a fixed-wing aircraft weighing a mere 10 g, flying around 1.5 m/s and carrying the necessary electronics for air ...

IEEE2006