Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles: a review

F Ahmed, JC Mohanta, A Keshari, PS Yadav - Arabian Journal for Science …, 2022 - Springer
In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

A survey on load transportation using multirotor UAVs

DKD Villa, AS Brandao, M Sarcinelli-Filho - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

The foldable drone: A morphing quadrotor that can squeeze and fly

D Falanga, K Kleber, S Mintchev… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have
significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and …

The voliro omniorientational hexacopter: An agile and maneuverable tiltable-rotor aerial vehicle

M Kamel, S Verling, O Elkhatib… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extending the maneuverability of multirotors promises to yield a considerable increase in
their scope of applications, such as carrying out more challenging inspection tasks and …

Odar: Aerial manipulation platform enabling omnidirectional wrench generation

S Park, J Lee, J Ahn, M Kim, J Her… - IEEE/ASME …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel aerial manipulation platform, an omnidirectional aerial robot, that is
capable of omnidirectional wrench generation with opportunistically distributed/aligned …

6D interaction control with aerial robots: The flying end-effector paradigm

M Ryll, G Muscio, F Pierri, E Cataldi… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a novel paradigm for physical interactive tasks in aerial robotics
allowing reliability to be increased and weight and costs to be reduced compared with state …

Design, modeling, and control of an aerial robot dragon: A dual-rotor-embedded multilink robot with the ability of multi-degree-of-freedom aerial transformation

M Zhao, T Anzai, F Shi, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we introduce a novel transformable aerial robot called DRAGON, which is a
dual-rotor-embedded multilink robot with the ability of multi-degree-of-freedom (DoF) aerial …

Thor's hammer: An ungrounded force feedback device utilizing propeller-induced propulsive force

S Heo, C Chung, G Lee, D Wigdor - … of the 2018 CHI Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a new handheld haptic device, Thor's Hammer, which uses propeller propulsion
to generate ungrounded, 3-DOF force feedback. Thor's Hammer has six motors and …

6D physical interaction with a fully actuated aerial robot

M Ryll, G Muscio, F Pierri, E Cataldi… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design, control, and experimental validation of a novel fully-actuated
aerial robot for physically interactive tasks, named Tilt-Hex. We show how the Tilt-Hex, a …

Search-based motion planning for aggressive flight in se (3)

S Liu, K Mohta, N Atanasov… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrotors with large thrust-to-weight ratios are able to track aggressive trajectories with
sharp turns and high accelerations. In this letter, we develop a search-based trajectory …