IBUKI TATSUYA
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology
   Position   Associate Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2023/03
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Design and Experimental Verification of a Hoverable Quadrotor Composed of Only Clockwise Rotors
Contribution Type Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal Advanced Robotics
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
Volume, Issue, Page 37(10),pp.667-678
Total page number 12
Author and coauthor Takumi Ito, Riku Funada, Shusuke Mochida, Takahiro Kawagoe, Tatsuya Ibuki, Mitsuji Sampei
Details This paper presents a novel structure for a quadrotor, making it hover only with clockwise rotors, where we denote it as a 4P (Positive) rotor. We first investigate the condition for a 4P rotor to hover. More specifically, we conduct the hoverability analysis, which is closely related to the controllability analysis, and show that the tilting angles of each rotor are crucial conditions for the hoverability of the 4P rotor. The derived condition for the tilting angles is then utilized to present two prototypes. Each prototype is developed with the following design purposes: One is to reduce the horizontal force generated by the tilted rotors, and the other is to make its torque generation the same as that of a standard quadrotor. The hoverability and dynamical property of both prototype is demonstrated in simulations and experiments.