Aerial Cargo Robot   (Cargo UAV)

Kakuya Iwata; Osamu Matsumoto

doi:10.20965/jrm.2014.p0394

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JRM Vol.26 No.3 pp. 394-395

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2014.p0394

(2014)

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Aerial Cargo Robot (Cargo UAV)

Kakuya Iwata and Osamu Matsumoto

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

Received:

October 31, 2013

Accepted:

March 19, 2014

Published:

June 20, 2014

Keywords:

cargo UAV, aerial robot, aerial cargo robot (ACR), silent turbojet engine

Abstract

Flight test of Cargo UAV

Safety is the most important factor in the civil use of aerial robots. Research on aerial cargo robots, also known as cargo unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) started in 2004. The first ACR prototype flight was made on November 22, 2005. The ACR prototype consists of a flexible airfoil, twin microturbojet engines and a gravity center (GC) controller. The ACR meets the following four safety requirements: (i) touchability, i.e., without propellers or rotors, (ii) the low sink rate of a parachute, i.e., below 1.0 m/s, (iii) low stall speed, i.e., <30 km/h, (iv) a redundancy arrangement control. The most important safety specification of all is infallibility in ACR service applications.

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K. Iwata and O. Matsumoto, “Aerial Cargo Robot (Cargo UAV),” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.26 No.3, pp. 394-395, 2014.

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[1] K. Iwata, N. Hashimoto, and K. Komoriya, “Aerial Robotic System for Transportation and Logistics,” J. of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics (JMTL), Vol.1, No.1, pp. 146-157, 2008.
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[3] K. Iwata and O. Matsumoto, “Research of Cargo UAV for civil transportation,” J. of Unmanned System Technology (JUST), Vol.1, No.3, pp. 89-93, 2013.

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[1] [1] K. Iwata, N. Hashimoto, and K. Komoriya, “Aerial Robotic System for Transportation and Logistics,” J. of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics (JMTL), Vol.1, No.1, pp. 146-157, 2008.

[2] [2] K. Iwata and O. Matsumoto, “Turbojet Engine for CARGO UAV (CARGO UAV),” J. of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.24, No.6, pp. 1040-1045, 2012.

[3] [3] K. Iwata and O. Matsumoto, “Research of Cargo UAV for civil transportation,” J. of Unmanned System Technology (JUST), Vol.1, No.3, pp. 89-93, 2013.