When Being Soft Makes You Tough: A Collision-Resilient Quadcopter Inspired by Arthropods' Exoskeletons
Ricardo de Azambuja,Hassan Fouad,Yann Bouteiller,Charles Sol,Giovanni Beltrame,Ricardo de Azambuja,Hassan Fouad,Yann Bouteiller,Charles Sol,Giovanni Beltrame
Flying robots are usually rather delicate and require protective enclosures when facing the risk of collision, while high complexity and reduced payload are recurrent problems with collision-resilient flying robots. Inspired by arthropods' exoskeletons, we design a simple, open source, easily manufactured, semi-rigid structure with soft joints that can withstand high-velocity impacts. With an exos...
