In the contemporary landscape, the escalating deployment of drones across diverse
industries has ushered in a consequential concern, including ensuring the security of drone …

Perching on the moving platforms is a promising solution to enhance the endurance and
operational range of quadrotors, which could benefit the efficiency of a variety of air ground …

Drones have the potential to revolutionize power line inspection by increasing productivity,
reducing inspection time, improving data quality, and eliminating the risks for human …

This paper presents a novel trajectory planning method for aerial perching. Compared with
the existing work, the terminal states and the trajectory durations can be adjusted adaptively …

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) interactions with powerlines, such as close-up
inspections for fault detection or grasping and landing for recharging, require advanced …

Autonomous micro aerial vehicles are deployed for a variety of tasks including surveillance
and monitoring. Perching and staring allow the vehicle to monitor targets without flying …

In this article, we consider the problem of delivering an object to a human coworker by
means of an aerial robot (AR). To this aim, we present an ergonomics-aware Nonlinear …

Drones have been increasingly used in various domains, including ecological monitoring in
forests. However, the endurance and noise of drones have limited their deployment to short …

There is a strong demand in the automation of powerline inspection, which is currently
performed in a two-stage process: 1) data collection by an aerial vehicle equipped with …

Landing a quadrotor on a mobile platform moving with various unknown trajectories
presents special challenges, including the requirements of fast trajectory …