Aerial swarms: Recent applications and challenges

M Abdelkader, S Güler, H Jaleel, JS Shamma - Current robotics reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Currently, there is a large body of research on multi-agent
systems addressing their different system theoretic aspects. Aerial swarms as one type of …

Autonomous aerial robotics for package delivery: A technical review

J Saunders, S Saeedi, W Li - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest in the last decade.
More specifically these vehicles have the capacity to impact package delivery logistics in a …

Aerial manipulation using a quadrotor with a two dof robotic arm

S Kim, S Choi, HJ Kim - 2013 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents aerial manipulation using a quadrotor with a two-DOF robot arm. By
considering a quadrotor and robot arm as a combined system, the kinematic and dynamic …

Geometric control and differential flatness of a quadrotor UAV with a cable-suspended load

K Sreenath, T Lee, V Kumar - 52nd IEEE conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quadrotor with a cable-suspended load with eight degrees of freedom and four degrees
underactuation is considered and a coordinate-free dynamic model, defined on the …

Trajectory generation and control of a quadrotor with a cable-suspended load-a differentially-flat hybrid system

K Sreenath, N Michael, V Kumar - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quadrotor with a cable-suspended load with eight degrees of freedom and four degrees
underactuation is considered and the system is established to be a differentially-flat hybrid …

Nonlinear backstep** control of a quadrotor-slung load system

G Yu, D Cabecinhas, R Cunha… - … /ASME Transactions On …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a nonlinear backstep** controller designed for an underactuated
quadrotor-slung load system that drives the load to a predefined trajectory. The quadrotor …

Agile load transportation: Safe and efficient load manipulation with aerial robots

I Palunko, P Cruz, R Fierro - IEEE robotics & automation …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become promising mobile
platforms capable of navigating semiautonomously or autonomously in uncertain …