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Vol 11, Issue 112 · 2026

Milliwatt ultrasound for navigation in visually degraded environments on palm-sized aerial robots

Manoj Velmurugan, Phillip Brush, Colin Balfour, Richard J. Przybyla, and Nitin J. Sanket

M. Velmurugan, P. Brush, C. Balfour, R. J. Przybyla, and N. J. Sanket, "Milliwatt ultrasound for navigation in visually degraded environments on palm-sized aerial robots," Science Robotics, vol. 11, no. 112, 2026. DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adz9609
M. Velmurugan*, K. Srivastava*, R. Kulkarni*, and N. J. Sanket, "VizFlyt: Perception-centric Pedagogical Framework For Autonomous Aerial Robots," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 9920–9927. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11128463 (* equal contribution)
S. R. K. P. Raju, R. Singh, M. Velmurugan, and N. J. Sanket, "EdgeFlowNet: 100FPS@1W Dense Optical Flow for Tiny Mobile Robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 128–135, Jan. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3496336
M. K. M. Jaffar, M. Velmurugan, and R. Mohan, "A novel guidance algorithm and comparison of nonlinear control strategies applied to an indoor quadrotor," 5th Indian Control Conference (ICC), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 466–471. DOI: 10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715549