Kyle Uckert

PARSEC: An Aerial Platform for Autonomous Deployment of Self-Anchoring Payloads on Natural Vertical Surfaces

PARSEC (Payload Anchoring Robotic System for the Exploration of Cliffs) is an autonomy-equipped aerial manipulator that can deploy self-anchoring payloads on rocky vertical surfaces. It consists of a hexacopter and a two Degrees of Freedom (2 DoF) mass balancing manipulator, which can autonomously d…