Aerial mobile manipulator system to enable dexterous manipulations with increased precision

A Praveen, H Yang, H Jang, RM Voyles - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09618, 2020 - arxiv.org
Problems associated with physical interactions using aerial mobile manipulators (AMM) are
being independently addressed with respect to mobility and manipulability. Multirotor …

[PDF][PDF] Sensing and sampling of trace contaminations by a dexterous hexrotor UAV at nuclear facilities-18600

P Abbaraju, R Voyles - Proceedings of the WM2018 Symposium …, 2018 - academia.edu
Safe and efficient cleanups are a priority for decontamination and decommissioning of
nuclear facilities. The contaminations of byproducts and wastes in such nuclear facilities …

Autonomous Physical Inspection of Exhaust Shafts and Smokestacks Using a Fully-Actuated UAV

A Praveen, X Ma, Y Huang, M Rastgaar… - … Symposium on Safety …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multirotor UAVs are being widely employed for periodic inspections of large-scale industrial
facilities to protect workers from hazardous conditions such as precarious heights and toxic …

[PDF][PDF] Novel UAV and UGV Platforms for Physical Interaction with the Environment in support of Nuclear D&D Operations

RM VOYLES, D CAPPELLERI, S MOU, H CHOSET… - kns.org
The current state-of-the-art in decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) remains largely
based on manual operations in personal protective equipment (PPE) with human-operated …