Succeeded in grabbing luggage with Quad Rotor like hunting of birds of prey

"Biomimetics (biomimetic technology)" that mimics the form and characteristics of animals in the home electronics industry and others are thriving, but also "Quad rotor" realizing stable flight with four rotors gains inspiration for hunting of birds of prey in the same way We succeeded in realizing the movement "to grasp the goal at high speed".

Submission to IDETC | Justin Thomas, PhD Student
http://www.jtwebs.net/idetc-paper-submitted/

This was developed by Justin Thomas et al., Ph.D. course at the University of Pennsylvania. You can watch how it actually moves because you are publishing movies to YouTube.

Avian-Inspired Grasping For Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicles - YouTube


Movement of birds of prey, which we referred to, steeply descending towards the water ... ...



I grab the target and fly away.



Here is what we did with quad rotor.



Flying from the left side of the screen ......


I grab it with the arm at the bottom of the main unit and fly away.


A series of flows is almost instantaneous.





This technology was thought by Thomas et al. Because MAV (Micro Unmanned Airplane) currently under development is not considered so much as to "grab and carry things"IDETC (International Design and Engineering Technology Conference) 2013It is supposed to be announced in.

About the mechanism of the arm, calculation of the flight trajectory etc. are posted in the following PDF.

DRAFT: AVIAN-INSPIRED GRASPING FOR QUADROTOR MICRO UAVS
(PDF file)http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~koushils/Publications/IDETC2013.pdf

In addition, famous "BigDog" famous for making a kind of unique movement by quadrupedal walking has recently been able to grab things and be thrown.

BigDog