4 accepted papers
This paper studies a novel application of an aerial manipulator (AM)-the contact-based landing on a mobile platform. An AM is inherently unstable, under-actuated, and usually loses some DOFs while contacting environments. Meanwhile, the AM's flight state is susceptible to uncertain movements of the…
Glass curtain walls have been widely used in modern architecture. This makes it urgent to inspect and clean these glasses at regular intervals. Up to now, most of these work is performed by workers, which is expensive and inefficient. Therefore, a novel robot-the contact aerial manipulator system-is…
Contact-based operation in moving process is a challenging problem for aerial manipulators. It requires the whole system to maintain steady contact with external environment, to track some predefined trajectories on surfaces, and simultaneously to present some fixed contact force. Aiming at this pro…
The dangerous work situation in industrial leakage accidents urgently needs a flexible and small robot to help workers perform operations and to protect them from being injured. An aerial manipulator system consisting of a hexa-rotor UAV and a one-DOF manipulator is developed, and is used to press a…