This article reviews the state-of-the-art modeling and control techniques for aerial robots
such as quadrotor systems and presents several future research directions in this area. The …

We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey of recent advancements in modelling
and autonomous manipulation of non-rigid objects. It first summarizes the recent advances …

Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

The robotic manipulation of deformable linear objects (DLOs) has broad application
prospects in many fields. However, a key issue is to obtain the exact deformation models (ie …

Deforming a cable to a desired (reachable) shape is a trivial task for a human to do without
even knowing the internal dynamics of the cable. This paper proposes a framework for cable …

In this paper, we present a new feedback method to automatically servo-control the 3-D
shape of soft objects with robotic manipulators. The soft object manipulation problem has …

This paper addresses the design of a vision-based method to automatically deform soft
objects into desired two-dimensional shapes with robot manipulators. The method presents …

The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (ie, those with mixed
nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical …

Due to its high dimensionality, deformable object manipulation is a challenging problem in
robotics. In this letter, we present a deep neural network based controller to servo control the …