[HTML][HTML] Tethered unmanned aerial vehicles—a systematic review

MN Marques, SA Magalhães, FN Dos Santos… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of
tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long …

Marine locomotion: A tethered UAV-buoy system with surge velocity control

A Kourani, N Daher - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are reaching offshore. In this work, we formulate the novel
problem of a marine locomotive quadrotor UAV, which manipulates the surge velocity of a …

Path and trajectory planning of a tethered UAV-UGV marsupial robotic system

S Martinez-Rozas, D Alejo… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter addresses the problem of trajectory planning in a marsupial robotic system
consisting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) linked to an unmanned ground vehicle …

Vacna: Visibility-aware cooperative navigation with application in inventory management

H Masnavi, J Shrestha, K Kruusamäe… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an online trajectory planning algorithm for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) to autonomously scan warehouse racks for inventory management. Our main …

Autonomous visual assistance for robot operations using a tethered uav

X **ao, J Dufek, RR Murphy - Field and Service Robotics: Results of the …, 2021 - Springer
This paper develops an autonomous tethered aerial visual assistant for robot operations in
unstructured or confined environments. Robotic tele-operation in remote environments is …

Best viewpoints for external robots or sensors assisting other robots

J Dufek, X **ao, RR Murphy - IEEE Transactions on Human …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work creates a model of the value of different external viewpoints of a robot performing
tasks. The current state of the practice is to use a teleoperated assistant robot to provide a …

Nonlinear control and stability analysis of a unified Tethered UAV-winder system

S Folorunsho, M Ni, W Norris - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.09502, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents the development of a comprehensive dynamics and stabilizing control
architecture for Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) systems. The proposed …

Calculation of the power required to operate a tethered unmanned airborne platform in gust conditions

VM Vishnevsky, AM Shirvanyan - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This work aims to assess the necessary power for a tethered high-altitude unmanned
airborne platform, in which the propulsion system and payload are powered from a ground …