Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle via bistable Mechanism
The Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle (HAV) aims to combine the agility of a quadrotor with the efficiency of fixed wing aircraft. A passive bistable structure in the center allows the HAV to leverage its inertia to fold out wings. This enables the robot to change between flight modes without the addition of any electrical components besides the quadrotor's motors. The full paper may be found here.
BRIDGE Bot
As an undergraduate researcher, I worked with Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter to develop the Bridge Risk Investigation Diagnostic Grouped Exploratory (BRIDGE) Bot. Our goal was to develop a network of autonomous robots that are capable of traversing all parts of a bridge and capturing images for visual inspection. I contributed to the design of the robot and began exploring how the robot will autonomously navigate plane transitions. Check out our paper!