In the last decade, the aerial robotics community has witnessed an increased interest in fully
actuated multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have more capabilities than …

In recent years, aerial manipulators with fully-actuated capabilities are gaining popularity for
being used in aerial manipulation operations such as critical infrastructure inspection or …

There is a strong demand in the oil and gas industry to develop alternatives to manual
inspection. This paper presents AeroX, a novel aerial robotic manipulator that provides …

This paper reviews the effect of multirotor aerial vehicle designs on their abilities in terms of
tasks and system properties. We propose a general taxonomy to characterize and describe …

In this paper, we propose, discuss, and validate an online Nonlinear Model Predictive
Control (NMPC) method for multi-rotor aerial systems with arbitrarily positioned and oriented …

Enabling vertical take-off and landing while pro-viding the ability to fly long ranges opens the
door to a wide range of new real-world aircraft applications while improving many existing …

The power grid is an essential infrastructure in any country, comprising thousands of
kilometers of power lines that require periodic inspection and maintenance, carried out …

Propeller failure is a major cause of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) crashes.
While conventional multirotor systems struggle to address this issue due to underactuation …

This letter presents a perception-aware and motor-level non-linear model predictive control
scheme for multi-rotor aerial vehicles. Our formulation considers both real actuation …

This paper presents a robust control strategy for controlling the flight of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) with a passively (fixed) tilted hexarotor. The proposed controller is based on a …