TY - GEN
T1 - Drones Practicing Mechanics
AU - Uppaluru, Harshvardhan
AU - Ghufran, Mohammad
AU - Asslouj, Aeris El
AU - Rastgoftar, Hossein
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Mechanics of materials is a traditional engineering course that exposes undergraduate students in a variety of engineering fields to the principles of strain and stress analysis. However, material deformation and strain have been evaluated theoretically, numerically, and empirically tested using expensive machinery and instruments. This paper describes a novel method for analyzing strain and deformation using quadrotors. We propose to treat quadrotors as a finite number of particles of a deformable body and apply the principles of continuum mechanics to illustrate the concept of axial and shear deformation in 2-D and 3-D motion spaces. The outcome from this work has the potential to significantly impact undergraduate education by bridging the gap between classroom instruction and hardware implementation and experiments using quadrotors. Therefore, we introduce a new role for quadrotors as "teachers,"which provides an excellent opportunity to practice theoretical concepts of mechanics in a productive way.
AB - Mechanics of materials is a traditional engineering course that exposes undergraduate students in a variety of engineering fields to the principles of strain and stress analysis. However, material deformation and strain have been evaluated theoretically, numerically, and empirically tested using expensive machinery and instruments. This paper describes a novel method for analyzing strain and deformation using quadrotors. We propose to treat quadrotors as a finite number of particles of a deformable body and apply the principles of continuum mechanics to illustrate the concept of axial and shear deformation in 2-D and 3-D motion spaces. The outcome from this work has the potential to significantly impact undergraduate education by bridging the gap between classroom instruction and hardware implementation and experiments using quadrotors. Therefore, we introduce a new role for quadrotors as "teachers,"which provides an excellent opportunity to practice theoretical concepts of mechanics in a productive way.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156556
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156556
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2023
SP - 745
EP - 752
BT - 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2023
Y2 - 6 June 2023 through 9 June 2023
ER -