Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study presents an new robotic airborne solution for autonomous wall painting using a pointillism technique. The proposed dot-painting drone is a quadcopter equipped with an additional forward propulsion unit and a spring-mounted painting pad. It is designed to bounce on a vertical wall in order to print dots at a controlled frequency along a predefined trajectory. A dynamic model of the system is derived and used to control accurately the bouncing frequency as well as the position of the robot. The performance of the system is validated experimentally, demonstrating successful indoor painting capability of pointillism drawing on vertical walls. This work represents a first step toward fully autonomous, large-scale mural reproduction using aerial robotics.
Authors: Pierre Susbielle, Jonathan Dumon, Ahmad Hably
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
OpenAlex ID: W4408780289