SQUEEZE

a deformable aerial robot to "squeeze-and-fly"

SQUEEZE is a deformable, compliant quadrotor with passively morphing arms, designed using torsional spring hinges that allow the arms to deflect under external forces. This enables the vehicle to adapt its geometry mid-flight for navigating constrained environments leveraging collisions. (Patnaik et al., 2020)

🎥 Watch SQUEEZE in Action

SQUEEZE flies through a narrow passage.

References

2020

squeeze-to-fly

Design and Control of SQUEEZE: A Spring-augmented QUadrotor for intEractions with the Environment to squeeZE-and-fly

Karishma Patnaik Shatadal Mishra, and 2 more authors

In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{patnaik2020design,
  title = {Design and Control of SQUEEZE: A Spring-augmented QUadrotor for intEractions with the Environment to squeeZE-and-fly},
  author = {Patnaik, Karishma and Mishra, Shatadal and Sorkhabadi, Seyed Mostafa Rezayat and Zhang, Wenlong},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {1364--1370},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE}
}