The
AirBurr: Robust Flight in Cluttered Indoor Environments
(June 17, 2012) Robots
capable of flight in cramped and cluttered environments have many advantages
over their ground-based counterparts, but most current systems suffer from the
same fundamental problem: any contact with obstacles has catastrophic,
mission-ending results. What if instead of avoiding collisions, a flying robot
can become robust to them, and even take advantage of contact with its
environment?