Heading Control of a Long-Endurance Insect-Scale Aerial Robot Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles

Yi-Hsuan Hsiao,Suhan Kim,Zhijian Ren,YuFeng Chen,Yi-Hsuan Hsiao,Suhan Kim,Zhijian Ren,YuFeng Chen

Aerial insects demonstrate fast and precise heading control when they perform body saccades and rapid escape maneuvers. While insect-scale micro-aerial-vehicles (IMAVs) have demonstrated early results on heading control, their flight endurance and heading angle tracking accuracy remain far inferior to that of natural fliers. In this work, we present a long endurance sub-gram aerial robot that can ...