1A2-D01 Movable Sensor System for Flying Robots
Daisuke Iwakura, Wei Wang, Dwi Pebrianti, Duy Hinh Nguyen, Kenzo NONAMI · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2010
MAV is very small and lightweight, so it is safer than bigger UAV and is studying for information-gathering in the low altitude. Such environment includes risks such as collision with obstacles, and loss of GPS signals, so some sort of external sensor is required. Additionally, external sensor is required for the vertical obstacle avoidance, takeoff and landing. In this study, we propose a low-cost and lightweight movable sensor system which can apply to these uses. The proposed movable sensor system consists of 4 infrared sensors and 4 RC servo motors and 1 ultrasonic sensor. By using this sensor system, an experiment of precise landing has been successful. This paper describes the overview of precise landing, and an experiment of data acquisition for the indoor-flight of MAVs.