Design and Realization of an Unmanned Aerial Rotorcraft Vehicle Using Pressurized Inflatable Structure

Unmanned aerial rotorcraft vehicles have many military, commercial and civil applications. There is a necessity to advance the performance on several ranges of rotorcraft for using these vehicles successfully in the expanded future roles. A lower flight time, noise disturbance and safety issues remain the key obstacles in increasing the efficiency of the rotorcraft for various applications. This work presents the design and realization of a rotorcraft using pressurized inflatable structure filled with lighter than air gas such as helium or hydrogen to provide lift assistance for the vehicle. Two iterative design procedures were developed for designing the vehicle. One is based on the net weight of the vehicle and the other based on the diameter of the pressurized structure. Fabrication of a design based on the diameter of the pressurized structure is analysed and evaluated. Gross static lift, the correlation between the size of the inflatable structure and lift force produced, lifting gas properties in the flight range, stress on the structure, and the maximum achievable altitude is also discussed. The vehicle possesses the potential to overcome some inherent limitations of the current unmanned aerial rotorcraft vehicles. This work holds an excellent prospect for future research and more isolated development in all the applications this particular system can be employed

Design and Control of Omni-directional aerial robot

학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 기계항공공학부, 2016. 2. 이동준.우리는 비대칭적인 분산된 멀티 로터 배치로 SE(3)에서 fully-actuated한 특성을 가지고 비행과 회전이 동시에 가능하여 일반적인 비행로봇이 가지고 있는 under-actuation한 문제를 극복 할 수 있는 전방향 비행 로봇이라는 새로운 디자인의 비행 로봇을 제안한다. 먼저 우리는 각 로터들 사이의 공기역학적인 간섭을 최소화함과 동시에 최대의 제어 렌치를 생수 할 수 있게 하기 위해 로터 배치의 최적화 작업을 수행한다. 우리는 SE(3)에서 ODAR 시스템의 동역학 모델링을 제시하고 병진운동과 회전운동의 제어 디자인을 진행한다. 우리는 또한 ODAR 시스템을 실제 제작하고 그것의 성능을 검증한다. 기존의 비행로봇과는 완전히 다른 시스템으로서 우리는 ODAR 시스템이 전방향 렌치 생성이 중요한 항공 매니퓰레이터나 가상현실 렌더링 3D 환경구축을 위한 전방향 구동에서의 촬영 성능을 지닐 수 있는 항공 촬영 역할을 수행 할 것으로 믿는다.We propose a novel aerial robot system, Omni-Directional Aerial Robot (ODAR), which is fully-actuated in SE(3) with asymmetrically distributed multiple rotors and can fly and rotate at the same time, thereby, overcoming the well-known under-actuation problem of conventional multi-rotor aerial robots (or simply drones). We first perform optimization of rotor distribution to maximize control wrench generation in SE(3) while minimizing aero-dynamic interference among the rotors. We present dynamics modeling of the ODAR system in SE(3) and simultaneous translation / orientation control design. We also implement a ODAR system and experimentally validate its performance. Being completely different from the conventional drone, we believe this ODAR system would be promising for such applications as aerial manipulation, where omni-directional wrench generation is important, and also as aerial photography, where an ability to taking photos in omni-direction is desired for 3D environment reconstruction for VR scene rendering.1 서론 1 1.1 연구 동기 및 목적 1 1.2 연구 성과 4 2 시스템 디자인 및 제어 설계 6 2.1 시스템 디자인 6 2.2 제어 설계 16 3 시뮬레이션 21 3.1 시뮬레이션 준비 21 3.2 시뮬레이션 결과 24 4 시스템 제작 27 4.1 시스템 제작 준비 27 4.2 시스템 제작 구성품 28 4.3 시스템 제작 통합 34 5 실험 36 5.1 실험 준비 36 5.2 실험 결과 38 5.2.1 원형 궤적 추적 39 5.2.2 3D 영상촬영 모션 42 5.2.3 수직 구동 작업 45 6 결론 49 6.1 결론 49 6.2 향후 과제 50 참고문헌 52 Abstract 57Maste

Advances in Human Robot Interaction for Cloud Robotics applications

In this thesis are analyzed different and innovative techniques for Human Robot Interaction. The focus of this thesis is on the interaction with flying robots. The first part is a preliminary description of the state of the art interactions techniques. Then the first project is Fly4SmartCity, where it is analyzed the interaction between humans (the citizen and the operator) and drones mediated by a cloud robotics platform. Then there is an application of the sliding autonomy paradigm and the analysis of different degrees of autonomy supported by a cloud robotics platform. The last part is dedicated to the most innovative technique for human-drone interaction in the User’s Flying Organizer project (UFO project). This project wants to develop a flying robot able to project information into the environment exploiting concepts of Spatial Augmented Realit

飛行ロボットにおける人間・ロボットインタラクションの実現に向けて : ユーザー同伴モデルとセンシングインターフェース

学位の種別: 課程博士審査委員会委員 : （主査）東京大学准教授 矢入 健久, 東京大学教授 堀 浩一, 東京大学教授 岩崎 晃, 東京大学教授 土屋 武司, 東京理科大学教授 溝口 博University of Tokyo(東京大学