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BALLU is a unique bipedal robot that, because of the external buoyancy force and its simple configuration, exhibits a distinct locomotion behavior different from conventional bipeds. When a first-time operator is tasked to trigger each leg individually and make the robot walk, it can respond with non-intuitive behaviors. The most noticeable is the turning in the yaw direction, where because of the underactuation and the mass of the legs relative to the entire body, the body’s yaw orientation can change significantly depending on the duration that the robot is in the single stance phase. Furthermore, as the body oscillates up and down during locomotion and since buoyancy and drag distort the speed at which the robot moves, BALLU looks as if it is slowly striding in space. Such non-intuitive and unconventional behavior inherent by the design calls for a detailed analysis of the platform’s motions to potentially leverage them for control. 3.1 Challenge Considering that the multi-balloon profiling control needs to meet the shortest time and the highest copying accuracy, the balloon multi-objective optimization control model can be transformed into the following model [ 21]: Liu, Y. et al. Haustral loop extraction for ct colonography using geodesics. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery 12, 379–388, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-016-1497-x (2017). For the multi-balloon robots, the control model can be seen as a multi-objective optimization problem [ 19, 20], which is divided into several control units, each of which represents a robot area with multiple control motors. Rigid-wing glider: A rigid-wing glider is a glider with wings that are rigidly attached to the main body of the glider. Rigid-wing gliders are the most common type of glider and are typically used for leisure and sporting activities.
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The drag force disrupts BALLU’s walking motion because of the balloon’s large cross-section. This adds additional complexity to the already nonlinear dynamics of the rigid body. The large fluctuation makes it even harder to analyze. The magnitude is about 5.5% compared to its body weight and can peak up to about 12.0%. Moreover, there are multiple sources of uncertainty on the platform. For example, while it is necessary to adopt lightweight and affordable parts, smaller and low-cost sensors and actuators tend to have lower fidelity. In addition, light materials are prone to wear, and helium balloons lose their buoyancy over time, which makes the system time-varying and the identified parameters unknown. Touching on safety, it is also evident that BALLU can only produce so much force and momentum in any given direction. In its walking direction, the maximum acceleration and velocity is approximately 0.3m/ s 2 and 0.4m/ s, where the mass of the entire robot is only about 170 g. Even then, because of the balloon body’s radius, the first point of collision in a human environment will likely be the balloons and not the legs. This shows that even if a system like BALLU were to malfunction and collide, it will cause no harm to its surrounding environment or humans. 7 Conclusion Franchetti, M. & Kress, C. An economic analysis comparing the cost feasibility of replacing injection molding processes with emerging additive manufacturing techniques. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 88, 2573–2579, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-016-8968-7 (2017). Hybrid balloon: A hybrid balloon robot is a combination of hot air and a gas balloon. These are relatively new technology and are typically helpful for long-duration flights.
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Fixed-wing drone: A fixed-wing drone has wings like an airplane. These drones are typically used for long-distance flights and can stay in the air for extended periods of time. Fixed-wing drones are more stable than rotary-wing drones and can carry heavier payloads, but they are more difficult to fly and are more expensive. Quadcopters
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Weitschat R, Vogel J, Lantermann S, Hoppner H (2017) End-effector airbags to accelerate human-robot collaboration. Proc IEEE Int Conf Robot Autom 11(8):2279–2284 Manfredi, L., Putzu, F., Guler, S., Huan, Y. & Cuschieri, A. 4 DOFs hollow soft pneumatic actuator - HOSE. Materials Research Express 6, 045703, https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/aaebea (2019). For the design parameters and the knee joint displacement θ within the joint limits, a range of spring constant κ can be obtained from Eq. 8. Among satisfying κ, we prefer to choose a relatively low stiffness. It is because, when the spring constant takes a lower value, the dynamics change more drastically between a single support phase and a double support phase, and the controller would have more options to control its motion by adjusting each phase length. Through a handful of empirical tests, a torsion spring with 0.1409N mm/deg with 135° was chosen. 2.1.5 Feet Liang ZP, Wang XY, Lin QZ, Chen F, Chen JY (2018) A novel multi-objective co-evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition approach. Appl Soft Comput J 73:50–66 Horton, K. M., Corl, F. M. & Fishman, E. K. Ct evaluation of the colon: Inflammatory disease. RadioGraphics 20, 399–418, https://doi.org/10.1148/radiographics.20.2.g00mc15399 (2000).Wang JB, Fang YY, Tong X, Zhang S, Fei YQ (2018) Design and Locomotion properties of a multi-airbag bionic soft robot. J Shanghai Jiaotong Univ 52(1):20–25
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Air balloon robots Airships 2) Airplane robots 3) Autonomous flying robots 4) Drones Quadcopters Hexacopters Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) 5) GlidersMaple, J. T. et al. Methods of luminal distention for colonoscopy. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 77, 519–525, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2012.09.025 (2013). Based on the careful analysis of the motions from experts’ teleoperation, a data-driven controller is suggested to handle the highly nonlinear dynamics. First, a set of teleoperation data in the simulation were collected in different scenarios. Next, to extract underlying state vectors of the complex dynamics, the correlations between the kinematic quantities were statistically evaluated; for each phase of walking, the quantities that have a high Spearman Correlation Score (SCC) were chosen as state variables. Then, their relationship was approximated using an artificial neural network, which is trained on the same data.
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