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Cartesian Aerial Manipulator with Compliant Arm
(MDPI, 2021-01-22)
This paper presents an aerial manipulation robot consisting of a hexa-rotor equipped with a 2-DOF (degree of freedom) Cartesian base (XY–axes) that supports a 1-DOF compliant joint arm that integrates a gripper and an ...
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Safe local aerial manipulation for the installation of devices on power lines: Aerial-core first year results and designs
(MDPI AG, 2021)
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 nowadays by human operators in risky conditions. ...
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Design of an Anthropomorphic, Compliant, and Lightweight Dual Arm for Aerial Manipulation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018-05)
This paper presents an anthropomorphic, compliant and lightweight dual arm manipulator designed and developed for aerial manipulation applications with multi-rotor platforms. Each arm provides four degrees of freedom in a ...
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A 79.7g Manipulator Prototype for E-Flap Robot: A Plucking-Leaf Application
(IEEE, 2022-06-17)
The manipulation capabilities of flapping-wing flying robots (FWFRs) is a problem barely studied. This is a direct consequence of the load-carrying capacity limitation of the flapping-wing robots. Ornithopters will improve ...
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Modeling and Application of an SMA-Actuated Lightweight Human-Inspired Gripper for Aerial Manipulation
(MDPI, 2023-08)
The increasing usage of multi-rotor aerial platforms and the reliability of flights enabled researchers to add equipment and devices to them for application. The addition of lightweight manipulators, grippers, and mechanisms ...
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Compliant Bimanual Aerial Manipulation: Standard and Long Reach Configurations
(IEEE, 2020)
The ability of aerial manipulation robots to reach and operate in high altitude workspaces may result of interest in a wide variety of applications and scenarios that nowadays cannot be accessed easily by human operators. ...
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Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators
(IEEE, 2021)
This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation, comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust platforms equipped with a wide variety of ...
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Aerial Physical Interaction in Grabbing Conditions with Lightweight and Compliant Dual Arms
(MDPI, 2020-12)
This paper considers the problem of performing bimanual aerial manipulation tasks in grabbing conditions, with one of the arms grabbed to a fixed point (grabbing arm) while the other conducts the task (operation arm). ...
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Motion planning with dynamics awareness for long reach manipulation in aerial robotic systems with two arms
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2018)
Human activities in maintenance of industrial plants pose elevated risks as well as significant costs due to the required shutdowns of the facility. An aerial robotic system with two arms for long reach manipulation in ...
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Hecatonquiros: Open-source hardware for aerial manipulation applications
(SAGE, 2020)
This article presents Hecatonquiros, a complete open-source ecosystem for low cost and lightweight robotic manip ulators. It has been released to focus on aerial manipulation applications but can be used in any other robotic ...