6 accepted papers
Air density changes depending on the local atmosphere and affects the rotor thrust of flying robots. This effect has to be compensated by the flight controller in order to realize precise tracking of a desired trajectory. So far, the influence of the air density has been disregarded or only consider
Teams of mobile robots will play a crucial role in future missions to explore the surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies. Setting up infrastructure and taking scientific samples are expensive tasks when operating in distant, challenging, and unknown environments. In contrast to current single-robot spa
This paper is devoted to the study of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with fixed-pitch propellers and bidirectional thrust vector. The latter is realized by using dedicated motor controllers, which allow to invert the propellers' direction of rotation during flight (so-called 3D mode), and a…
A significant barrier regarding a successful implementation of fenceless robot cells into manufacturing areas with humans is given by the inefficiency due to safety requirements. Robot motions have to be slowed down so that an unexpected collision with a human does not result in human injuries. This…
In this paper, a tracking control approach for robot assisted landing of UAV rotorcraft, such as multicopters and helicopters, is presented. The aim is to safely land these type of flying vehicles under side wind conditions and on moving surfaces using a robot manipulator arm mounted on the ground.…
This paper addresses the problem of landing a VTOL UAV using a serial robotic manipulator fixed to the landing surface, which assists the UAV during the last, most challenging, landing phase. In this phase, UAV and manipulator are connected via a universal hinge, which decouples the flying vehicle’s