Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems
Different unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications, such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, or commercial delivery, require different specifications such as payload weight and travel range, which typically require completely different designs. This means that it is difficult, if...
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ACM|Symposium on Computational Fabrication
2023
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| author | Wang, Sophia Smith, Miana Gershenfeld, Neil |
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| description | Different unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications, such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, or commercial delivery, require different specifications such as payload weight and travel range, which typically require completely different designs. This means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to easily reconfigure an existing UAS for a new application without the redesign and reconstruction of the system. To facilitate easy reconfiguration of UAS, we present Voxelcopter, a modular construction kit for the rapid-prototyping and rapid assembly of multicopter UAS. We develop basic viable components for flight, including reconfigurable building blocks, termed functional voxels, that assemble into high-stiffness, lightweight structures with integrated power and data, a custom flight controller software library, propellers, and power storage. In this demo, a quadcopter is assembled, and we flight test the resulting vehicle, then disassemble it into components ready for reuse, demonstrating the easy reconfigurability of the system. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1531552024-01-04T16:42:57Z Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems Wang, Sophia Smith, Miana Gershenfeld, Neil Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Bits and Atoms Different unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications, such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, or commercial delivery, require different specifications such as payload weight and travel range, which typically require completely different designs. This means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to easily reconfigure an existing UAS for a new application without the redesign and reconstruction of the system. To facilitate easy reconfiguration of UAS, we present Voxelcopter, a modular construction kit for the rapid-prototyping and rapid assembly of multicopter UAS. We develop basic viable components for flight, including reconfigurable building blocks, termed functional voxels, that assemble into high-stiffness, lightweight structures with integrated power and data, a custom flight controller software library, propellers, and power storage. In this demo, a quadcopter is assembled, and we flight test the resulting vehicle, then disassemble it into components ready for reuse, demonstrating the easy reconfigurability of the system. 2023-12-13T20:20:52Z 2023-12-13T20:20:52Z 2023-10-08 2023-12-01T08:49:40Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 979-8-4007-0319-5 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153155 Wang, Sophia, Smith, Miana and Gershenfeld, Neil. 2023. "Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems." PUBLISHER_POLICY en https://doi.org/10.1145/3623263.3629155 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The author(s) application/pdf ACM|Symposium on Computational Fabrication Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Wang, Sophia Smith, Miana Gershenfeld, Neil Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title | Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title_full | Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title_fullStr | Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title_short | Voxelcopter: Modular Autonomous Aerial Systems |
| title_sort | voxelcopter modular autonomous aerial systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153155 |
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