Payload transportation and manipulation by rotorcraft drones are receiving a lot of attention
from the military, industrial and logistics research areas. The interactions between the UAV …

Highlights•Autonomous ground and aerial vehicles can lead to improve agriculture
management.•A collaborative scheme based on a multi-phase approach is …

This review paper focuses on quadrotor-and multirotor-based cooperative aerial
manipulation. Emphasis is first given to comparing and evaluating prototype systems that …

A collision-free formation control problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with
directed switching topologies and disturbances is investigated. A novel distributed control …

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of path-following control for a group of
Quadrotor-Slung-Load Systems (QSLSs) subject to time-varying disturbances. A single …

The objective of this survey paper is to review the state-of-the-art related to quadrotor-and
multirotor-based cooperative aerial manipulation, with a focus on comparing and evaluating …

This paper investigates a cooperative fixed-time control for networked-delayed and
disturbed quadrotors in payload transportation missions. First, the input time-delayed …

A hyper-redundant space manipulator (HRSM) refers to a robotic arm with a large number of
degrees of rotational freedom. It can be used in narrow environments for on-orbit …

In this article, we address the problem of aerial transport of a suspended payload by two
vehicles with minimal sensing and computational requirements. Herein, the leader-follower …

The problem of transporting a rigid object by a team of robotic arms is studied in this article.
The study aims to enable manipulators to move the object in the desired and predefined …