The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation,
comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust …

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 …

Construction machinery and robots are essential equipment for major infrastructure. The
application of deep learning technology can improve the construction quality and alleviate …

The art installation Flight Assembled Architecture [1] is one of the first structures built by
flying vehicles. Culminating in a 6-m-tall tower composed of 1500 foam modules (see …

The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with
novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active …

Contemporary construction techniques are slow, labor-intensive, dangerous, expensive, and
constrained to primarily rectilinear forms, often resulting in homogenous structures built …

In this paper we present the design and control of a novel six degrees-of-freedom aerial
vehicle. Based on a static force and torque analysis for generic actuator configurations, we …

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) holds the promise of automating many real-
world cooperative robotic manipulation and transportation tasks. Nevertheless …