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The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, 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 video publication, ...

2011

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Wassim Hraiz, Oriol Fauria Torrent

2011

Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Manuel Schlegel, 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

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

Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics

Mirko Kovac

In nature, many small animals use jumping locomotion to move in rough terrain. Compared to other modes of ground locomotion, jumping allows an animal to overcome obstacles that are relatively large compared to its size. In this thesis we outline the main d ...

EPFL2010

A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Manuel Schlegel, 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

A miniature 7g jumping robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, André Guignard, Dario Floreano, Martin Fuchs, Mirko Kovac

Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. In this paper we present the development and characterization of a novel 5cm, 7g jumping robot. It can jump obstacles as h ...

2008

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac

2008

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Grégory Savioz, Mirko Kovac

The Self Deploying Microglider project aims at developing a novel palm sized robot that can climb up walls, deploy itself into the air, recover from every position in air and perform subsequent goal directed gliding and attachment to walls. So far, we deve ...

2007

A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, André Guignard, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac

Unpowered flight can be used in microrobotics to overcome ground obstacles and to increase the traveling distance per energy unit. In order to explore the potential of goal-directed gliding in the domain of miniature robotics, we developed a 22cm microglid ...

Ieee Service Center2007

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