Past, present, and future of aerial robotic manipulators

A Ollero, M Tognon, A Suarez, D Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation,
comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust …

6D interaction control with aerial robots: The flying end-effector paradigm

M Ryll, G Muscio, F Pierri, E Cataldi… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a novel paradigm for physical interactive tasks in aerial robotics
allowing reliability to be increased and weight and costs to be reduced compared with state …

A truly-redundant aerial manipulator system with application to push-and-slide inspection in industrial plants

M Tognon, HAT Chávez, E Gasparin… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design, motion planning, and control of an aerial manipulator for non-trivial
physical interaction tasks, such as pushing while sliding on curved surfaces-a task which is …

6D physical interaction with a fully actuated aerial robot

M Ryll, G Muscio, F Pierri, E Cataldi… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design, control, and experimental validation of a novel fully-actuated
aerial robot for physically interactive tasks, named Tilt-Hex. We show how the Tilt-Hex, a …