Energy-efficient autonomous four-rotor flying robot controlled at 1 kHz

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 361-366

  Gurdan, Daniel ^a,b   Stumpf, Jan ^a,b   Achtelik, Michael ^a   Doth, Klaus Michael ^c   Hirzinger, Gerd ^d   Rus, Daniela ^b,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e Lab of Distributed Robotics

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLYING PLATFORM; FLYING ROBOTS; MINIMALISTIC DESIGN;

ALGORITHMS; BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POSITION CONTROL; ROTORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36348967772     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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