Standard quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess a limited mobility because of
their inherent underactuation, that is, availability of four independent control inputs (the four …

Transport of objects is a major application in robotics nowadays. While ground robots can
carry heavy payloads for long distances, they are limited in rugged terrains. Aerial robots …

In this work we propose an uncertainty-aware controller for the Fly-crane system, a statically
rigid cable-suspended aerial manipulator using the minimum number of aerial robots and …

Sampling-based algorithms for path planning, such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree
(RRT), have achieved great success, thanks to their ability to efficiently solve complex high …

Abstract Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are a class of parallel robots whose legs
consist of cables. In most previous studies, the positions of the cable connection points on …

We propose a novel robotic platform for aerial operation and manipulation, a spherically
connected multiquadrotor (SmQ) platform, which consists of a rigid frame and multiple …

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative aerial transportation of an object using a
team of quadrotors. The approach presented to solve this problem accounts for the full …

This letter considers the cooperative manipulation of a cable-suspended load with two
generic aerial robots without the need of explicit communication. The role of the internal …

In this document, a review about snake aerial manipulators is presented. The most common
mechatronical implications found in their design are described. The text is presented to the …

The challenge of aerial robotic contact-based inspection is the driving motivation of this
paper. The problem is approached on both levels of control and path-planning by …