For most robotic vehicles, when the road gets rough, the rough stop rolling. But Alex Kossett and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos of the Center for Distributed Robotics at the University of Minnesota have created a robot that can wheel over various terrain and then get airborne when rolling no longer works. Their Land/Air Hybrid prototype robot has two motor systems that work independently to control the wheels and rotor.
The researchers presented their work at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Shanghai.
Credit: Alex Kossett and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota
Tags: Autonomous Robots, Aviation, Robotics, Robots
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