no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Takumi Ito, Riku Funada, Mitsuji Sampei
This paper presents a novel VTOL UAV that owns a link connecting four rotors and a fuselage by a passive joint, allowing the control of the rotor's tilting angle by adjusting the rotors' thrust.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2023 • Riku Funada, Koju Nishimoto, Tatsuya Ibuki, Mitsuji Sampei
Then, we consider the condition for separating two ellipsoidal rigid bodies by employing a signed distance from a supporting hyperplane of a rigid body to the other rigid body.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2022 • Riku Funada, María Santos, Ryuichi Maniwa, Junya Yamauchi, Masayuki Fujita, Mitsuji Sampei, Magnus Egerstedt
This paper proposes a distributed coverage control strategy for quadcopters equipped with downward-facing cameras that prevents the appearance of unmonitored areas in between the quadcopters' fields of view (FOVs).
no code implementations • 28 Apr 2022 • Koju Nishimoto, Riku Funada, Tatsuya Ibuki, Mitsuji Sampei
This paper presents a collision avoidance method for elliptical agents traveling in a two-dimensional space.