Hyfliers flight test

HYFLIERS is a research and innovation action for advanced robot capabilities research and take-up. The goal is to develop the world's first industrial integrated robot with hybrid air and ground mobility with a long-reach hyper-redundant manipulator capable of reaching sites where no other robot can access, reducing the exposition of human inspectors to potentially dangerous working conditions. The system shall have multi-media interfaces for teleoperation, automatic collision detection and avoidance, a trajectory planning system taking into account aerodynamic effects in addition to kinematic and dynamic models, and a mission planning system to optimize the use of the robot in the inspection. Targeting ultrasonic thickness measurements for oil and gas refineries and chemical plants, the results could be applied to many other robotic inspection technologies.