9 accepted papers
This letter presents a simple, low-cost teleoperation system. The leader device is a handheld camera integrated with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), making it feasible to use a modern smartphone for this purpose. Existing leader devices require hardware and sensors to measure both the user inter
Art is one of the oldest forms of human expression, constantly evolving, taking new forms and using new techniques. With their increased accuracy and versatility, robots can be considered as a new class of tools to perform works of art. The STRAD (STReet Art Drone) project aims to perform a 10-meter
Aerial Manipulators with Elastic Suspension (AMES) may be seen as a hybrid robot mixing properties of classical Aerial Manipulators (AMs) and Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs). The optimal design and control of an AMES using unidirectional thrusters are considered in this paper. To maximize the w…
Since omnidirectional aerial vehicles can generate a six degrees of freedom wrench, they could be used for dexterous manipulation tasks without the need for an additional robotic arm. However, they suffer from a reduced efficiency and dynamics range due to the huge amount of energy lost in gravity c…
Aerial manipulation increases significantly the workspace size of robotic manipulators. However, aerial manipulation suffers from a lack of autonomy due to limited embedded energy. The Aerial Manipulator with Elastic Suspension (AMES) is designed to cope with this issue. It is an omnidirectional aer…
Aerial manipulators may replace industrial manipulators for specific tasks involving large workspaces and high dynamics. However, these robots suffer from a lack of accuracy, autonomy, payload capability and a complex regulatory environment. To overcome some of these limitations, we introduce a nove
This work studies redundant actuation for both trajectory tracking and disturbance rejection on flexible cable-driven parallel robots (CDPR). High dynamics/bandwidth unidirectional force generators, like air propellers, are used in combination with conventional but slower cable winding winches. To o…
This paper presents a preliminary study of an Aerial Manipulator suspended by a spring to a robotic carrier. The suspended aerial manipulator is actuated by six pairs of contra-rotating propellers generating a 6-DoF wrench. Simulations show path following results using a computed torque (feedback li…
This work is a preliminary study assessing the feasibility of using cold-gas thrusters for active damping of flexible cable-driven parallel robots. The concept is validated experimentally on a planar robot embedding custom-built supersonic air thrusters operating at an industry-standard pressure lev…