SOBAR | NICHE Robotic Systems Laboratory

SOBAR is soft aerial robot made of compliant arms for demonstrating the benefits of compliance in aerial-physical interaction. We show how compliance is the key to perform fast perching even in presence of obstacles and on various objects. (Nguyen et al., 2023)

🎥 Watch SOBAR in Action

SOBAR performs simultaneous collision and perching.

Benefits of compliance in physical interaction.

SOBAR’s successful perching via drop tests.

SOBAR’s inflatable frame being set up.

SOBAR tolerates flight collisions safely.

Autonomous perching using onboard sensing and control.

References

2023

impact perching

A soft-bodied aerial robot for collision resilience and contact-reactive perching

Pham H Nguyen Karishma Patnaik, and 3 more authors

Soft Robotics, 2023

Bib

@article{nguyen2023soft,
  title = {A soft-bodied aerial robot for collision resilience and contact-reactive perching},
  author = {Nguyen, Pham H and Patnaik, Karishma and Mishra, Shatadal and Polygerinos, Panagiotis and Zhang, Wenlong},
  journal = {Soft Robotics},
  volume = {10},
  number = {4},
  pages = {838--851},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 140 Huguenot Street, 3rd Floor New~…}
}