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Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles (AquaMAV): Bio-inspired air-water mobility for robotics

水上微型飞行器 (AquaMAV)：仿生机器人的空气-水移动性

基本信息

批准号：
EP/N009061/1
负责人：
Mirko Kovac
金额：
$ 12.56万
依托单位：
Imperial College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN009061%2F1
关键词：
Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles AquaMAV

项目摘要

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a step changing technology that allows for fast, low-risk and low- cost environmental sensing with a world-wide market value of $89bn over the next ten years (as estimated by the 2013 Teal Group forecast). However, current UAVs are greatly limited by being able to operate in air only, preventing them to move effectively on the ground or in water. Hybrid air-water mobility would address the societal need for remote water sampling in inaccessible areas such as during floods or after nuclear accidents. For example, UAVs could quickly provide water samples following a nuclear accident to better coordinate response efforts. While some UAVs can land on water, no technologies are available that allow them to both dive and fly, due to dramatic design trade-offs that have to be solved for movement in both air and water, and due to the absence of high-power propulsion systems that would allow a transition from underwater to air.Expanding on my emerging leader position in aerial robotics, I will develop a novel generation of hybrid flying robots, called Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles (AquaMAVs). These robots offer the revolutionary mission capability to fly to a site of interest, dive into the water to take a water sample and provide video footage and retake flight to return to the base station.The engineering approach will build on the analysis of aerial-aquatic animals such as flying fish, diving birds and gliding squid, and the implementation of their key bio-inspired design principles using the best of robotic engineering.This First Grant Scheme application, leveraged by major strategic investment from Imperial College to the AquaMAV research area and a recent donation of £1.25m for a new flight arena, will allow me to establish scientific leadership in bio-inspired aerial robotics. It will build the basis to deliver the key building blocks for aerial-aquatic robots requiring innovation in propulsion, adaptive morphologies and autonomy that allow for hybrid mobility. The final goal of this first grant is to demonstrate novel propulsion systems and wing folding mechanisms that are tailored to AquaMAV requirements. Following this grant the systems will be integrated in a fully featured AquaMAV that can fly, dive into water, dive while taking water samples and transition back to propeller driven flight. Besides the application oriented impact, this project will also deliver key scientific insights on locomotion modalities for robotics across varied terrain.Having partnered with five industrial partners, including the National Nuclear Labs and Shell, will provide the pathways to industrial impact and continued research support building on the results from this grant. Major corporate interest in this project is demonstrated by committed resources of more than £65k of in kind benefits from industrial partners and two CASE studentships for higher Technology Readiness Levels of AquaMAV. This grant will provide the bridge in research staff resources that will allow the demonstration of AquaMAV principles and build the basis for future impact. Aerial-aquatic robot mobility is widely unexplored and this project will initiate a novel and high impact area in academia as demonstrated by support from leaders in robotics and biology, including support from Harvard University. Once realised, AquaMAVs will be a major technological stepping stone for new robotic applications, such as search and rescue in flooded buildings, for water sampling during oil spills or after nuclear accidents, and for low cost oceanographic data collection, all of which are areas of vital national importance to the U.K.

无人机（UAV）是一种快速、低风险和低成本的环境传感技术，未来十年全球市场价值为890亿美元（根据2013年Teal Group预测估计）。然而，目前的无人机由于只能在空中操作而受到很大的限制，这使得它们无法在地面或水中有效地移动。气水混合流动性将满足在洪水期间或核事故后等无法进入的地区进行远程水取样的社会需求。例如，无人机可以在核事故发生后迅速提供水样，以更好地协调应对工作。虽然一些无人机可以在水上降落，但由于必须解决在空中和水中运动的戏剧性设计权衡，并且由于缺乏允许从水下过渡到空中的大功率推进系统，因此没有技术可以使它们既能潜水又能飞行。在航空机器人领域，我将开发新一代混合飞行机器人，水上微型飞行器（Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles）这些机器人提供了革命性的使命能力，可以飞到感兴趣的地点，潜入水中采集水样，提供视频录像，然后重新飞行返回基站。工程方法将建立在对飞鱼、潜水鸟和滑翔鱿鱼等空中水生动物的分析基础上，以及利用最好的机器人工程来实现其关键的生物灵感设计原则。这是第一次资助计划申请，通过帝国理工学院对AquaMAV研究领域的重大战略投资以及最近为一个新的飞行竞技场捐赠125万英镑，将使我能够在生物启发的空中机器人领域建立科学领导地位。它将为提供空中-水上机器人的关键构件奠定基础，这些机器人需要在推进、自适应形态和自主性方面进行创新，以实现混合移动性。这第一笔赠款的最终目标是展示新的推进系统和机翼折叠机构，这些都是为AquaMAV的要求量身定制的。该系统将被集成到一个功能齐全的AquaMAV中，该系统可以飞行，潜入水中，潜水时采集水样，并转换回螺旋桨驱动飞行。除了面向应用的影响外，该项目还将为机器人在不同地形上的运动模式提供关键的科学见解。该项目与包括国家核实验室和壳牌在内的五个工业合作伙伴合作，将为工业影响提供途径，并在此基础上继续提供研究支持。主要企业对该项目的兴趣体现在来自工业合作伙伴的超过6.5万英镑的实物利益和两个CASE学生奖学金的承诺资源，以提高AquaMAV的技术准备水平。这笔赠款将为研究人员资源提供桥梁，使AquaMAV原理得以演示，并为未来的影响奠定基础。空中-水上机器人移动性尚未得到广泛探索，该项目将在学术界开创一个新的高影响力领域，这一点得到了机器人和生物学领域领导者的支持，包括哈佛大学的支持。一旦实现，AquaMAV将成为新的机器人应用的主要技术垫脚石，例如在被淹没的建筑物中进行搜索和救援，在石油泄漏或核事故后进行水采样，以及低成本的海洋学数据收集，所有这些都是英国至关重要的国家重要领域。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（10）

专著数量（0）

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Deep Neuromorphic Controller with Dynamic Topology for Aerial Robots

DOI：
10.1109/icra48506.2021.9561729
发表时间：
2021-05
期刊：
2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
影响因子：
0
作者：
Basaran Bahadir Kocer;Mohamad Abdul Hady;Harikumar Kandath;Mahardhika Pratama;M. Kovač
通讯作者：
Basaran Bahadir Kocer;Mohamad Abdul Hady;Harikumar Kandath;Mahardhika Pratama;M. Kovač

AI reflections in 2021

2021 年人工智能反思

DOI：
10.1038/s42256-021-00435-7
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Nature Machine Intelligence
影响因子：
23.8
作者：
Buckner, Cameron;Miikkulainen, Risto;Forrest, Stephanie;Milano, Silvia;Zou, James;Prunk, Carina;Irrgang, Christopher;Cohen, I. Glenn;Su, Hao;Murphy, Robin R.
通讯作者：
Murphy, Robin R.

Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy.

社会规范解释了气候政策的优先顺序。