Even as human–robot interactions become increasingly common, conventional small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), typically multicopters, can still be unsafe for deployment in an indoor environment in close proximity to humans without significant safety precautions. This is due to their fast-spinning propellers, and lack of a fail-safe mechanism in the event of a loss of power. A blimp, a non-rigid airship filled with lighter-than-air gases is inherently safer as it ’floats’ in the air and is generally incapable of high-speed motion. The Spherical Indoor Coandă Effect Drone (SpICED), is a novel, safe spherical blimp design propelled by closed impellers utilizing the Coandă effect. Unlike a multicopter or conventional propeller blimp, the closed impellers reduce safety risks to the surrounding people and objects, allowing for SpICED to be operated in close proximity with humans and opening up the possibility of novel human–drone interactions. The design implements multiple closed-impeller rotors as propulsion units to accelerate airflow along the the surface of the spherical blimp and produce thrust by utilising the Coandă effect. A cube configuration with eight uni-directional propulsion units is presented, together with the closed-loop Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) controllers, and custom control mixing algorithm for position and attitude control in all three axes. A physical prototype of the propulsion unit and blimp sUAS was constructed to experimentally validate the dynamic behavior and controls in a motion-captured environment, with the experimental results compared to the side-tetra configuration with four bi-directional propulsion units as presented in our previously published conference paper. An up to 40% reduction in trajectory control error was observed in the new cube configuration, which is also capable of motion control in all six Degrees of Freedom (DoF) with additional pitch and roll control when compared to the side-tetra configuration.


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    Titel :

    Spherical Indoor Coandă Effect Drone (SpICED): A Spherical Blimp sUAS for Safe Indoor Use


    Beteiligte:
    Ying Hong Pheh (Autor:in) / Shane Kyi Hla Win (Autor:in) / Shaohui Foong (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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