This paper presents a literature survey on aerial manipulation. First of all, an extensive study
of aerial vehicles and manipulation/interaction mechanisms in aerial manipulation is …

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and techniques has provided a significant
advance in drone technology. Besides the military applications, drones are being …

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 …

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 …

This paper deals with the shape control of a passive tether that links underwater vehicles.
The pair of robots is composed of a leader that explores the environment, and a follower that …

This article considers the distributed time-varying optimal resource allocation problem with
time-varying quadratic cost functions and a time-varying coupled equality constraint for …

This work presents a methodology for reducing power consumption on quadrotor vehicles.
The proposed methodology combines both, a trajectory design procedure and a controller …

In this article, a control strategy approach is proposed for a system consisting of a quadrotor
transporting a double pendulum. In our case, we attempt to achieve a swing free …

Inspired by the limited battery life of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this
research investigated hierarchical real-time control of UAVs with the generation of energy …

Promoting the management of the over-limit of freight transport vehicles plays an important
role in the sustainable development of the highway industry. Vehicle outer contour …