Aerial manipulation aims at combining the versatility and the agility of some aerial platforms
with the manipulation capabilities of robotic arms. This letter tries to collect the results …

Standard quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess a limited mobility because of
their inherent underactuation, that is, availability of four independent control inputs (the four …

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous cooperative localization, grasping and
delivering of colored ferrous objects by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the …

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 …

The aerial manipulator is a special and new type of flying robot composed of a rotorcraft
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a/several manipulator/s. It has gained a lot of attention …

In the last years, autonomous aerial vehicles have become promising mobile robotic
platforms capable of manipulating external objects. In particular, quadrotors, rotorcrafts with …

In this paper, we shed light on two fundamental actuation capabilities of multirotors. The first
is the degree of coupling between the total force and total moment generated by the …

The flying hand is a robotic hand consisting of a swarm of UAVs able to grasp an object
where each UAV contributes to the grasping task with a single contact point at the tooltip …

A largely untapped potential for aerial robots is to capture airborne targets in flight. We
present an approach in which a simple dynamic model of a quadrotor/target interaction …

There is a growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) grasping, perching, and
interacting with their surroundings by means of claws, arms, hooks, and other appendages …