一台风扇兼作飞行与贴墙吸附,省去额外泵体,实现空地墙三模通行。
PerchMobi^3: A Multi-Modal Robot with Power-Reuse Quad-Fan Mechanism for Air-Ground-Wall Locomotion
- 四组涵道风扇同时提供飞行动力和负压吸附力,实现动力复用。
- 实测可稳定完成地面行驶、负重爬墙、空中飞行及跨模式切换。
- 无需额外泵体,结构紧凑轻量,适合复杂环境自主作业。
实现单个机器人平台在空中飞行、地面行驶和墙面攀爬之间的无缝融合仍面临重大挑战,现有设计常依赖额外的附着驱动装置,导致结构复杂、效率降低且可靠性下降。为此,我们提出PerchMobi^3,一种四风扇、负压吸附、空-地-墙多模态机器人,采用推进-附着一体化的动力复用机制。通过将四个涵道风扇重新利用,同时实现空中推力与负压吸附功能,并集成四个主动驱动轮,从而无需专用泵体,保持轻量化与紧凑设计。据我们所知,这是首个实现功能型动力复用的四风扇原型机。通过建模与控制框架,实现地面、墙面与空中模式间的协同运行及风扇辅助过渡。实验全面验证了该设计在地面行驶、载荷辅助墙面攀爬、空中飞行以及跨模式转换中的可行性,展示了其在多种运动场景下的鲁棒适应性。这些结果表明PerchMobi^3为多模态机器人移动提供了新型设计范式,有望推动未来向自主化与应用化部署发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Achieving seamless integration of aerial flight, ground driving, and wall climbing within a single robotic platform remains a major challenge, as existing designs often rely on additional adhesion actuators that increase complexity, reduce efficiency, and compromise reliability. To address these limitations, we present PerchMobi^3, a quad-fan, negative-pressure, air-ground-wall robot that implements a propulsion-adhesion power-reuse mechanism. By repurposing four ducted fans to simultaneously provide aerial thrust and negative-pressure adhesion, and integrating them with four actively driven wheels, PerchMobi^3 eliminates dedicated pumps while maintaining a lightweight and compact design. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first quad-fan prototype to demonstrate functional power reuse for multi-modal locomotion. A modeling and control framework enables coordinated operation across ground, wall, and aerial domains with fan-assisted transitions. The feasibility of the design is validated through a comprehensive set of experiments covering ground driving, payload-assisted wall climbing, aerial flight, and cross-mode transitions, demonstrating robust adaptability across locomotion scenarios. These results highlight the potential of PerchMobi^3 as a novel design paradigm for multi-modal robotic mobility, paving the way for future extensions toward autonomous and application-oriented deployment.
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