A survey on load transportation using multirotor UAVs

DKD Villa, AS Brandao, M Sarcinelli-Filho - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

Aerial manipulation—A literature survey

HB Khamseh, F Janabi-Sharifi… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a literature survey on aerial manipulation. First of all, an extensive study
of aerial vehicles and manipulation/interaction mechanisms in aerial manipulation is …

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 …

Obstacle avoidance and tracking control of redundant robotic manipulator: An RNN-based metaheuristic approach

AH Khan, S Li, X Luo - IEEE transactions on industrial …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a metaheuristic-based control framework, called beetle antennae
olfactory recurrent neural network, for simultaneous tracking control and obstacle avoidance …

Optimized sustainable manufacturing through fuzzy control in image-based visual servoing with velocity and field-of-view constraints

M Cheng, H Tang, UA Bhatti, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of image-based visual servoing (IBVS) in dynamic, high-speed, and high-
precision applications is a major issue in sustainable and smart manufacturing systems. The …

Novel aerial manipulator for accurate and robust industrial NDT contact inspection: A new tool for the oil and gas inspection industry

MA Trujillo, JR Martínez-de Dios, C Martín, A Viguria… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
There is a strong demand in the oil and gas industry to develop alternatives to manual
inspection. This paper presents AeroX, a novel aerial robotic manipulator that provides …

Design, modeling, and control of an aerial robot dragon: A dual-rotor-embedded multilink robot with the ability of multi-degree-of-freedom aerial transformation

M Zhao, T Anzai, F Shi, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we introduce a novel transformable aerial robot called DRAGON, which is a
dual-rotor-embedded multilink robot with the ability of multi-degree-of-freedom (DoF) aerial …

Cooperative autonomous search, gras**, and delivering in a treasure hunt scenario by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles

V Spurný, T Báča, M Saska, R Pěnička… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of autonomous cooperative localization, gras** and
delivering of colored ferrous objects by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the …

[HTML][HTML] A review of aerial manipulation of small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems

D **lun, GUO Pin, XU Kun, YU Yushu - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems (SRURSs) are a kind of unmanned
rotorcraft with manipulating devices. This review aims to provide an overview on aerial …

Adaptive image-based leader–follower formation control of mobile robots with visibility constraints

J Lin, Z Miao, H Zhong, W Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of leader-follower formation control of mobile robots
using only onboard monocular cameras that subjected to visibility constraints. An adaptive …