A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles
Adding compliance (softness) has been introduced as an effective way to improve the physical collision resilience characteristics of multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). This article answers the question “Where is the best place to apply compliance in a multirotor MAV to make it more collision‐r...
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| description | Adding compliance (softness) has been introduced as an effective way to improve the physical collision resilience characteristics of multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). This article answers the question “Where is the best place to apply compliance in a multirotor MAV to make it more collision‐resilient?” by analyzing the output data of more than 1200 drone collision tests through two sets of accelerated and nonaccelerated collision experiments for four main configurations of micro‐quadcopters each possessing a unique softness layout of physical frame. It is shown that while applying compliance to the protective propeller guards (bumpers) of a micro‐quadcopter provides a more elastic collision, it does not improve its energy‐dissipation (impact damping) characteristics. On the other hand, enhancing the inner frame of the micro‐quadcopter with a softer structure results in higher rates of impact energy damping during the collisions and an increase in the impact time, which results in lower impact accelerations the MAV experiences during the crush. A mathematical model is developed representing the contact/collision interactions as nonlinear viscoelastic forces. Comparing the results of the simulations to the experiments suggests that this model can effectively mimic the impact behavior of contacting/colliding MAVs with different structural stiffness and damping. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f2d730fde3fc416e99c07770c70aeceb2025-08-20T03:51:53ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672025-07-0177n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202400374A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial VehiclesAmirali Abazari0Alihan Bakir1Altar Sertpoyraz2Onur Ozcan3Mechanical Engineering Department Bilkent University Ankara 06800 TurkeyMechanical Engineering Department Bilkent University Ankara 06800 TurkeyMechanical Engineering Department Bilkent University Ankara 06800 TurkeyMechanical Engineering Department Bilkent University Ankara 06800 TurkeyAdding compliance (softness) has been introduced as an effective way to improve the physical collision resilience characteristics of multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). This article answers the question “Where is the best place to apply compliance in a multirotor MAV to make it more collision‐resilient?” by analyzing the output data of more than 1200 drone collision tests through two sets of accelerated and nonaccelerated collision experiments for four main configurations of micro‐quadcopters each possessing a unique softness layout of physical frame. It is shown that while applying compliance to the protective propeller guards (bumpers) of a micro‐quadcopter provides a more elastic collision, it does not improve its energy‐dissipation (impact damping) characteristics. On the other hand, enhancing the inner frame of the micro‐quadcopter with a softer structure results in higher rates of impact energy damping during the collisions and an increase in the impact time, which results in lower impact accelerations the MAV experiences during the crush. A mathematical model is developed representing the contact/collision interactions as nonlinear viscoelastic forces. Comparing the results of the simulations to the experiments suggests that this model can effectively mimic the impact behavior of contacting/colliding MAVs with different structural stiffness and damping.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400374collision resiliencemicro aerial vehiclessoft contact/impact modelingsoft robotsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| spellingShingle | Amirali Abazari Alihan Bakir Altar Sertpoyraz Onur Ozcan A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles Advanced Intelligent Systems collision resilience micro aerial vehicles soft contact/impact modeling soft robots Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| title | A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles |
| title_full | A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles |
| title_fullStr | A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles |
| title_short | A Study on the Effect of Structural Compliance Placing in Soft Contact/Collision Properties of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles |
| title_sort | study on the effect of structural compliance placing in soft contact collision properties of multirotor micro aerial vehicles |
| topic | collision resilience micro aerial vehicles soft contact/impact modeling soft robots Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400374 |
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