Toward Sub-Gram Helicopters: Designing a Miniaturized Flybar for Passive Stability
Kyle Johnson,Vicente Arroyos,Raul Villanueva,Adriana Schulz,Sawyer Fuller,Vikram Iyer,Kyle Johnson,Vicente Arroyos,Raul Villanueva,Adriana Schulz,Sawyer Fuller,Vikram Iyer
Sub-gram flying robots have transformative potential in applications from search and rescue to precision agriculture to environmental monitoring. However, a key gap in achieving autonomous flight for these applications is the low lift to weight ratio of flapping wing and quadrotor designs around 1 g or less. To close this gap, we propose a helictoper-style design that minimizes size and weight by ...
