Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle via Bistable Mechanism @ieeespectrum

Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

This video is part of the paper "Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle via Bistable Mechanism" by Xuan Li, Jessica McWilliams, Minchen Li, Cynthia Sung, Chenfanfu Jiang from SIG Center for Computer Graphics, University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Mathemat- ics, University of California, Los Angeles and General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Presented at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
See the full proceedings: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9560720/proceeding

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