Drone Docking
Drone Docking
Drones • PayloadsThe system shares relative pose, aligns vertically, stabilizes through contact, and completes a safe capture. Docking unlocks power sharing, payload transfer, and multi-drone mission continuity.
Highlights
- Gazebo/ArduPilot simulation with photoreal scenes and wind.
- Sensor fusion for relative pose (fiducials/visual-inertial).
- Guidance for vertical alignment and soft-capture.
- Health and abort logic for off-nominal approaches.
Overview
The system shares relative pose, aligns vertically, stabilizes through contact, and completes a safe capture. Docking unlocks power sharing, payload transfer, and multi-drone mission continuity.
Approach
Develop in sim, calibrate perception and control, then migrate the same stack to a hardware rig with instrumented docking hardware and progressive flight testing.
Results
Nominal approaches succeed in simulation with bounded drift; hardware rig tests of the latch and damping system are underway.
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