An Areo-Electro-Mechanical System for Easily-Deployable Environmental Sensing

• Samara's Features:

• Developmental versions of the “Samara”

• Comparison with a “samara”

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• 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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