Samara
An Areo-Electro-Mechanical System for Easily-Deployable Environmental Sensing
Pictures
Samara's Features:
Developmental versions of the “Samara”
Comparison with a “samara”
Papers
P. Pounds & S. Singh, "Samara: Biologically Inspired Self-Deploying Sensor Networks"
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IEEE Potentials
, pp. 10-14, March 2015.
P. Pounds & S. Singh, Integrated Electro-Aeromechanical Structures for Low-Cost, Self-Deploying Environment Sensors and Disposable UAVs. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pages 4444-4451, 2013.
S. Valdes, I. Urza, P. Pounds & S. Singh,
Samara: Low-cost Deployment for Environmental Sensing Using Passive Autorotation
. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Bio-inspired Robotics, 2012
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Press
Highlighted in Popular Mechanics, "30 Ways to Survive Absolutely Any Disaster"
UQ Press