Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are reaching offshore. In this work, we formulate the novel
problem of a marine locomotive quadrotor UAV, which manipulates the surge velocity of a …

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

This paper develops and compares two motion planning algorithms for a tethered UAV with
and without the possibility of the tether contacting the confined and cluttered environment …

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 …

This work creates a model of the value of different external viewpoints of a robot performing
tasks. The current state of the practice is to use a teleoperated assistant robot to provide a …

This article addresses the problem of how to visually estimate the pose of a rescue
unmanned surface vehicle (USV) using an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in marine mass …