24 Sep '12, 4pm

Design News - Blog - UAVs to Get Robot Arms & Hands via @designnews

Design News - Blog - UAVs to Get Robot Arms & Hands via @designnews

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) generally depend on their wings to get around. Just like their earth-bound cousins, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), usually depend on wheels. But researchers in Drexel University's College of Engineering plan to change that by figuring out how to add dexterous hands and arms to the craft. Paul Oh, a professor of engineering and head of Drexel's Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department, will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to examine the torques and reaction forces that are associated with applying robotic arms to UAVs. Other members of the research team include M. Ani Hsieh, James Tangorra, and Jin Kang. The work will be conducted in the Drexel Autonomous Systems Laboratory . The $649,999 National Science Foundation grant covers a period of three years. To determine how adding limbs to a UAV will affect its performan...

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