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 …

Small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems (SRURSs) are a kind of unmanned
rotorcraft with manipulating devices. This review aims to provide an overview on aerial …

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

The AEROARMS Project: Aerial Robots with Advanced Manipulation Capabilities for Inspection
and Maintenance Page 1 12 • IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE • dECEMBER 2018 …

This paper presents a novel paradigm for physical interactive tasks in aerial robotics
allowing reliability to be increased and weight and costs to be reduced compared with state …

This paper presents the design, control, and experimental validation of a novel fully-actuated
aerial robot for physically interactive tasks, named Tilt-Hex. We show how the Tilt-Hex, a …

In this paper, an image-based impedance control strategy for force tracking of an unmanned
aerial manipulator (UAM) is presented. Firstly, image features with nice decoupling …

Aerial manipulation has direct application prospects in environment, construction, forestry,
agriculture, search, and rescue. It can be used to pick and place objects and hence can be …

The aerial manipulator is a special and new type of flying robot composed of a rotorcraft
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a/several manipulator/s. It has gained a lot of attention …

In this letter we present an optimization-based method for controlling aerial manipulators in
physical contact with the environment. The multi-task control problem, which includes hybrid …