打造小于1克的微型飞行机器人,实现自持悬停与高效传感。
TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-scale Robots
- 用压差传感器替代激光雷达,优化光学流传感器设计。
- 系统仅重78.4毫克、功耗15毫瓦,实现与28克设备相当的悬停精度。
- 适合微型飞行器控制、仿生机器人及低功耗嵌入式系统研究者。
本文介绍了一种重小于1克的自主飞行昆虫机器人(FIR)在传感器套件上的进展。尽管微小尺寸带来材料成本低和可扩展性优势,但其控制面临高速动态、有限供电和载荷能力的挑战。此前,最轻可实现持续悬停的飞行器为28克的Crazyflie,其航电系统已减至187毫克、21毫瓦。本文进一步将系统质量降至78.4毫克、功耗低至15毫瓦。通过用更轻高效的压差传感器替代激光雷达,并基于全局快门图像芯片构建小型化光学流传感器,结合卡尔曼滤波(KF)融合数据,实时估计俯仰角、平移速度与高度。飞行测试中,该系统在姿态、速度与高度估计上误差均方根分别达1.573°、0.186米/秒和0.136米,性能与Crazyflie相当。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In this paper, we introduce advances in the sensor suite of an autonomous flying insect robot (FIR) weighing less than a gram. FIRs, because of their small weight and size, offer unparalleled advantages in terms of material cost and scalability. However, their size introduces considerable control challenges, notably high-speed dynamics, restricted power, and limited payload capacity. While there have been advancements in developing lightweight sensors, often drawing inspiration from biological systems, no sub-gram aircraft has been able to attain sustained hover without relying on feedback from external sensing such as a motion capture system. The lightest vehicle capable of sustained hovering -- the first level of ``sensor autonomy'' -- is the much larger 28 g Crazyflie. Previous work reported a reduction in size of that vehicle's avionics suite to 187 mg and 21 mW. Here, we report a further reduction in mass and power to only 78.4 mg and 15 mW. We replaced the laser rangefinder with a lighter and more efficient pressure sensor, and built a smaller optic flow sensor around a global-shutter imaging chip. A Kalman Filter (KF) fuses these measurements to estimate the state variables that are needed to control hover: pitch angle, translational velocity, and altitude. Our system achieved performance comparable to that of the Crazyflie's estimator while in flight, with root mean squared errors of 1.573 deg, 0.186 m/s, and 0.136 m, respectively, relative to motion capture.
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