In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of
tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long …

Airborne base stations (BSs)(carried by drones) have a great potential to enhance the
coverage and capacity of 6G cellular networks. However, one of the main challenges facing …

Metric ground navigation addresses the problem of autonomously moving a robot from one
point to another in an obstacle-occupied planar environment in a collision-free manner. It is …

The development and deployment of robotic technologies can have an important role in
efforts to achieve the United Nations'(UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—with …

This paper presents an approach to localize a UAV in indoor environments using only a
quasi-taut tether. In indoor GPS-denied environments, UAV localization usually depends on …

This letter presents the first method for autonomous exploration of unknown cavities in three
dimensions (3D) that focuses on minimizing the distance traveled and the length of tether …

In this paper, a multilevel architecture able to interface an on-board computer with a generic
UAV flight controller and its radio receiver is proposed. The computer board exploits the …

This paper develops an autonomous tethered aerial visual assistant for robot operations in
unstructured or confined environments. Robotic tele-operation in remote environments is …

This letter proposes a formal robot motion risk reasoning framework and develops a risk-
aware path planner that minimizes the proposed risk. While robots locomoting in …

This paper proposes and benchmarks two tether-based motion primitives for tethered UAVs
to execute autonomous flight with proprioception only. Tethered UAVs have been studied …