Aerial manipulation aims at combining the versatility and the agility of some aerial platforms
with the manipulation capabilities of robotic arms. This letter tries to collect the results …

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 …

This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation,
comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust …

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 …

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 …

This paper proposes a decentralized behavior-based formation control algorithm for multiple
robots considering obstacle avoidance. Using only the information of the relative position of …

A multilayer architecture to control multirotor UAVs equipped with a servo robot arm is
proposed in this paper. The main purpose is to control the aerial platform taking into account …

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 …

In this paper, we present selected benchmark aerial manipulation tasks using an aerial
vehicle endowed with multi-degree of freedom manipulators. The proposed tasks analyze …

This paper presents a vision guidance approach using an image-based visual servo (IBVS)
for an aerial manipulator combining a multirotor with a multidegree of freedom robotic arm …