TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Implementation of Cloud-Like Soft Drone S-Cloud
AU - Hwan Song, Seung
AU - Wook Shon, Hyun
AU - Yang Yeon, Gyu
AU - Ryeol Choi, Hyouk
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/27
Y1 - 2018/12/27
N2 - This study presents a new drone, called S-CLOUD, developed for safe and long flight time. It provides 3-axial (x, y, and z)translational motion and stable hovering for more than an hour after takeoff. S-CLOUD consists of two parts; soft blimp part and driving one. The soft blimp is a center-pierced torus-shaped part filled with Helium gas. Thus, it is safe to fly near people because it is light and soft, and all its rotating parts are at the center of the vehicle, which does not get damaged on collision. The driving part is plugged into the center of the soft blimp and includes the flow control mechanism, which consists of co-axial rotors and 2-axis crossed flaps. It controls the altitude, attitude, and translational movements of the vehicle. Its dynamic and reaction features against disturbances are derived using Newton-Euler formulation, and the simulation results are discussed. Finally, a prototype of S-CLOUD is fabricated and its feasibility is experimentally validated with practical applications.
AB - This study presents a new drone, called S-CLOUD, developed for safe and long flight time. It provides 3-axial (x, y, and z)translational motion and stable hovering for more than an hour after takeoff. S-CLOUD consists of two parts; soft blimp part and driving one. The soft blimp is a center-pierced torus-shaped part filled with Helium gas. Thus, it is safe to fly near people because it is light and soft, and all its rotating parts are at the center of the vehicle, which does not get damaged on collision. The driving part is plugged into the center of the soft blimp and includes the flow control mechanism, which consists of co-axial rotors and 2-axis crossed flaps. It controls the altitude, attitude, and translational movements of the vehicle. Its dynamic and reaction features against disturbances are derived using Newton-Euler formulation, and the simulation results are discussed. Finally, a prototype of S-CLOUD is fabricated and its feasibility is experimentally validated with practical applications.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85062969981
U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593601
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593601
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062969981
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 6241
EP - 6246
BT - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018
Y2 - 1 October 2018 through 5 October 2018
ER -