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Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings

Kwak, Bokeon  
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Shintake, Jun  
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Zhang, lu
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2022
2022 Ieee/Rsj International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (Iros)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Drones have shown to be useful aerial vehicles for unmanned transport missions such as food and medical supply delivery. This can be leveraged to deliver life-saving nutrition and medicine for people in emergency situations. However, commercial drones can generally only carry 10 % − 30 % of their own mass as payload, which limits the amount of food delivery in a single flight. One novel solution to noticeably increase the food-carrying ratio of a drone, is recreating some structures of a drone, such as the wings, with edible materials. We thus propose a drone, which is no longer only a food transporting aircraft, but itself is partially edible, increasing its food-carrying mass ratio to 50 %, owing to its edible wings. Furthermore, should the edible drone be left behind in the environment after performing its task in an emergency situation, it will be more biodegradable than its non-edible counterpart, leaving less waste in the environment. Here we describe the choice of materials and scalable design of edible wings, and validate the method in a flight-capable prototype that can provide 300 kcal and carry a payload of 80 g of water.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981956
ArXiv ID

2211.04149

Author(s)
Kwak, Bokeon  
Shintake, Jun  
Zhang, lu
Floreano, Dario  
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2022 Ieee/Rsj International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (Iros)
ISBN of the book

978-1-665479-27-1

Total of pages

8

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Start page

1802

End page

1809

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Kyoto, Japan

October 23-27, 2022

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November 9, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/192159
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