Robot designs can take many inspirations from nature, where there are many examples of
highly resilient and fault-tolerant locomotion strategies to navigate complex terrains by …

Mobile robots have revolutionized the public and private sectors for transportation,
exploration, and search and rescue. Efficient energy consumption and robust environmental …

Considering the requirements of high scientific return, low cost, less complexity, and more
reliability for the robot proposed by the extreme environment exploration task on the planet …

This work details the design, modeling and control of SytaB, a vehicle capable of hybrid
terrestrial/aerial mobility with smooth transition, where the structure embedding a bicopter is …

We tackle the problem of cooperative visual exploration where multiple agents need to
jointly explore unseen regions as fast as possible based on visual signals. Classical …

Aerial robots show promise for increased capabilities in exploring unstructured and
challenging environments. However, they are limited by payload capacity, flight times, and …

Some animals exhibit multi-modal locomotion capability to traverse a wide range of terrains
and environments, such as amphibians that can swim and walk or birds that can fly and …

Abstract Purpose of Review: The article provides an extensive overview on the resilient
autonomy advances made across various missions, orbital or deep-space, that captures the …

Flying robots are usually rather delicate and require protective enclosures when facing the
risk of collision, while high complexity and reduced payload are recurrent problems with …

Limited flight distance and time is a common problem for multicopters. We propose a method
for finding the optimal speed and sideslip angle of a multicopter flying a given path to …