This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

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

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 using …

Rough terrain locomotion has remained one of the most challenging mobility questions. In
2022, NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program invited US academic …

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 …

Inspired by Chukars wing-assisted incline running (WAIR), in this work, we employ a high-
fidelity model of our Husky Carbon quadrupedal-legged robot to walk over steep slopes of …

From power plants on land to bridges over the sea, safety-critical built environments require
periodic inspections for detecting issues to avoid functional discontinuities of these …

Mimicking the unpowered gliding capabilities of flying fish is challenging, due to the various
technical limitations that are involved in creating a dual-modal robot that can both swim …

Classical snake robot control leverages mimicking snake-like gaits tuned for specific
environments. However, to operate adaptively in unstructured environments, gait generation …

Along with the advancement of robot skin technology, there has been notable progress in
the development of snake robots featuring body-surface tactile perception. In this study, we …