Autonomous blimps have potential applications in surveillance, monitoring, and advertising.
Due to their lower payload capacities and possible unstable flight profile, small blimps have …

The Georgia Tech Miniature Autonomous Blimp (GT-MAB) is developed as an indoor
testbed for robotics research. Compared with existing platforms, the GT-MAB features longer …

Features such as safety and longer flight times render lighter-than-air robots strong
candidates for indoor navigation applications involving people. However, the existing …

The Georgia Tech Miniature Autonomous Blimp (GT-MAB) needs localization algorithms to
navigate to way-points in an indoor environment without leveraging an external motion …

Due to the recent technological progress, Human–RobotInteraction (HRI) has become a
major field of research in both engineering and artistic realms, particularly so in the last …

A miniature robotic blimp, as one type of lighter-than-air aerial vehicle, has attracted
increasing attention in the science and engineering field for its long flight duration and safe …

Robotic blimps, as lighter-than-air aerial systems, offer prolonged duration and enhanced
safety in human-robot interactions due to their buoyant lift. However, robust flight against …

The exploration of new lands has always been a source of motivation for mankind. Despite
the common idea that our planet is fully known, a huge number of inaccessible places still …

Abstract The Georgia Tech Miniature Autonomous Blimp (GT-MAB) is developed as an
indoor flying robot for education and research. The GT-MAB features extended flight …

In this paper, a Lighter Than Air Indoor Robot (LAIDR) is developed for entertainment
applications. An Adaptive Propulsion Mechanism (APM) is proposed to actuate the LAIDR …