2A1-E04 Quadrotor with a Rotating Spherical Shell Which Can Fly in the Complex Structure(Aerial Robot and Mechatronics (1))
Shoma Mizutani, Kazunori Ohno, Kazuaki Yanagimura, Yoshito Okada, Eijiro Takeuchi, Satoshı Tadokoro · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2014
Quadrotor are expected to use in disaster investigation or infrastructure inspection. There are complex structure and narrow spaces in these field. In flight on such an environment, there is a high risk of crash due to contact with an obstacle. Therefore, this paper proposes a quadrotor with a rotating spherical shell. The shell can be rotated freely independently of the quadrotor, so it can parry the impact of collision. We designed the prototype, and it was examined experimentally.