Dr. Zhongmou Li

Research

Aerial robot

build and test quadrotors

A drone is bulit from scratch and it is tested for autonomous flights with Vicon.

Aerial manipulater

Flying Gripper uses quadrotors to actuate underactuated fingers for grasping objects.

Here is how we prove this idea from concept to a prototype.

Multi-drone robot

multi-drone robot tracks reference trajectories

Protype of Flying gripper without grippers: four quadrotors are linked to a frame through U joints.

multi-drone robot perfroms grasping

Flying gripper performs approaching and grasping a large object.