TY - GEN
T1 - Omni-directional hovercraft design as a foundation for MAV education
AU - Detweiler, Carrick
AU - Griffin, Brent
AU - Roehr, Heath
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Quad-rotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are used widely in research and increasingly in commercial applications as the cost of these platforms has dropped. The cost of entry, however, is still high in large part due to the time and effort involved in repairing vehicles after crashes while learning about the system design and dynamics. In this paper, we present an omni-directional hovercraft, which has dynamics similar to MAVs and can be used as an educational platform to teach students about the behavior and control of MAV-like platforms with minimal cost and effort. Teaching students about the capabilities and challenges associated with MAVs is critical for educating future engineers and scientists that will develop and use the next generation of MAVs. In addition, the hovercraft provides a safe platform for researchers to test control and coordination algorithms before trying them on higher-cost MAVs.
AB - Quad-rotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are used widely in research and increasingly in commercial applications as the cost of these platforms has dropped. The cost of entry, however, is still high in large part due to the time and effort involved in repairing vehicles after crashes while learning about the system design and dynamics. In this paper, we present an omni-directional hovercraft, which has dynamics similar to MAVs and can be used as an educational platform to teach students about the behavior and control of MAV-like platforms with minimal cost and effort. Teaching students about the capabilities and challenges associated with MAVs is critical for educating future engineers and scientists that will develop and use the next generation of MAVs. In addition, the hovercraft provides a safe platform for researchers to test control and coordination algorithms before trying them on higher-cost MAVs.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386036
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386036
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872348477
SN - 9781467317375
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 786
EP - 792
BT - 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012
T2 - 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
Y2 - 7 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -