Separable Drone-Mobile Robot System

Integrated drone-mobile robot platform for energy-efficient unmanned patrol.

This project developed a drone-mobile robot system where a ground robot carries, charges, and deploys a drone for last-mile patrol over rugged terrain.

  • Designed ROS architecture for outdoor autonomous operation.
  • Built app-to-ROS interfaces and point-cloud terrain perception modules.
  • Fused IMU, GNSS, and wheel odometry with Kalman filtering to reduce localization error.
  • Presented the work at ICROS 2023, where the paper received the Undergraduate Best Paper Award.