Influence of rotor downwash on vertically displaced nanobots in flight

One challenge associated with navigating a nano aerial robot swarm indoors in unstructured environments is, i.a., the limited air space. To avoid an over-regulation of the available indoor air space (e.g., prohibit copters to fly above each other), a safety region around each copter must be defined....

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Published inMaterials today : proceedings Vol. 32; pp. 108 - 111
Main Authors Neumann, Patrick P., Hirschberger, Paul, Bartholmai, Matthias
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2020
Subjects
Collision-free navigation
Mobile Robot Olfaction
Nano aerial robot
Safety region model
Swarm
Safety region model
Swarm
Collision-free navigation
Mobile Robot Olfaction
Nano aerial robot
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Summary:One challenge associated with navigating a nano aerial robot swarm indoors in unstructured environments is, i.a., the limited air space. To avoid an over-regulation of the available indoor air space (e.g., prohibit copters to fly above each other), a safety region around each copter must be defined. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the downwash of a nano-drone on the stability of another nearby nano-drone. In the experiments, we found out that this downwash has a negative influence of a second nano-drone in a distance of around 1 m vertically and 0.2 m horizontally. Based on the obtained data, we developed a model describing the above-mentioned safety region to enable a safe operation of the swarm in these environments with fewer constraints.
ISSN:2214-7853
2214-7853
DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2020.03.047