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Collision resilient foldable micro aerial robot
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Collision management strategies are integral part of micro air vehicles for the reliability of their operation. Collision avoidance strategies require enhanced environmental and situational awareness for generating evasive ... -
Design, control, fabrication and maneuverability analysis of an untethered miniature soft robot
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)As the robotics field grows, it searches for new potential workspaces to be interacting with. The conventional robotics, which involves utilization of robots made out of hard materials like metals and hard plastics, has ... -
Design, control, modeling, and gait analysis in miniature foldable robotics
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)Miniature or micro robotic platforms are perfect candidates for accomplishing tasks such as inspection, surveillance, and hazardous environment exploration where conventional macro robots fail to serve. Such applications ... -
Design, control, modeling, and locomotion analysis of a multi-legged modular miniature robot with soft backbones
(Bilkent University, 2020-07)Soft Modular Legged roBot (SMoLBot) is a legged, foldable, modular, miniature robot with soft backbones. SMoLBot’s body and locomotion mechanisms are folded out of acetate sheets and its compliant connection mechanisms are ... -
Design, fabrication, and locomotion analysis of an untethered, miniature, legged, compressible, soft robot: CSQUAD
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)Conventional robotics has been effective for industrial applications such as fast, precise and accurate production or for sophisticatedly controlled systems for the last couple of centuries. However, as the robots become ... -
Design, fabrication, and soft impact modeling and simulation of a collision-resilient foldable micro quadcopter
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)Despite the appreciable advancements in mobile robot navigation and obstacle avoidance algorithms using an abundance of sensors and sensor fusion methods, the navigation of moving robots through confined and cluttered ... -
Design, manufacturing, and rough terrain analysis of a collision resilient foldable, adjustable wheeled miniature robot: FAWSCY
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)FAWSCY: Foldable Adjustable Wheeled Stringy Clumsy Robot is a foldable, collision resilient, adjustable wheeled robot which can run through different ter-rains and inclined surfaces, to inspect areas which are unavailable ... -
Nonlinear identification and optimal feedforward friction compensation for a motion platform
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)We present a method of nonlinear identification and optimal feedforward friction compensation procedure for an industrial single degree of freedom motion platform. The platform suffers from nonlinear dynamic effects, such as ... -
Optimization of compliant joints used in miniature foldable robotics
(Bilkent University, 2018-03)In small scale and more specifically in miniature robotics applications, compliant mechanisms are highly preferred because of their advantages such as, less moving parts, friction losses, assembly time and effort, but ... -
Theoretical and experimental analysis of a soft and miniature quadruped
(Bilkent University, 2020-11)Multi-body dynamic modeling of non-rigid and legged robots is an active research area with the goal of investigating the interaction of a robot with its environment and its resulting locomotion. The results of such studies ...