[2308.01385] BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing
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[Submitted on 2 Aug 2023]

Title:BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing

Authors:Suryansh Sharma, Ashutosh Simha, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Shubham Deshmukh, Kavin B. Saravanan, Ravi Ramesh, Luca Mottola
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Abstract:UAVs are becoming versatile and valuable platforms for various applications. However, the main limitation is their flying time. We present BEAVIS, a novel aerial robotic platform striking an unparalleled trade-off between the manoeuvrability of drones and the long lasting capacity of blimps. BEAVIS scores highly in applications where drones enjoy unconstrained mobility yet suffer from limited lifetime. A nonlinear flight controller exploiting novel, unexplored, aerodynamic phenomena to regulate the ambient pressure and enable all translational and yaw degrees of freedom is proposed without direct actuation in the vertical direction. BEAVIS has built-in rotor fault detection and tolerance. We explain the design and the necessary background in detail. We verify the dynamics of BEAVIS and demonstrate its distinct advantages, such as agility, over existing platforms including the degrees of freedom akin to a drone with 11.36x increased lifetime. We exemplify the potential of BEAVIS to become an invaluable platform for many applications.
Comments: To be published in the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 23), October 2-6, 2023, Madrid, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages
Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
Cite as: arXiv:2308.01385 [cs.RO]
  (or arXiv:2308.01385v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.01385
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592498

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From: Suryansh Sharma [view email]
[v1] Wed, 2 Aug 2023 19:01:03 UTC (19,987 KB)
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