Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest in the last decade.
More specifically these vehicles have the capacity to impact package delivery logistics in a …

Birds take off and land on a wide range of complex surfaces. In contrast, current robots are
limited in their ability to dynamically grasp irregular objects. Leveraging recent findings on …

Many real-world applications for robots—such as long-term aerial and underwater
observation, cross-medium operations, and marine life surveys—require robots with the …

Aerial manipulation: physical interaction with the environment by using a robotic manipulator
attached to the airframe of an aerial robot. In the future one can expect that aerial …

Existing grippers for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manipulation have persistent
challenges, highlighting a need for grippers that are soft, self-adaptive, self-contained, easy …

Today, many inspection domains utilize the benefits of drones to monitor and inspect
infrastructure in an efficient manner. The energy grid is challenged by frequent and thorough …

6-DoF robotic grasping is a long-lasting but un-solved problem. Recent methods utilize
strong 3D networks to extract geometric grasping representations from depth sensors …

The aerial manipulator is a special and new type of flying robot composed of a rotorcraft
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a/several manipulator/s. It has gained a lot of attention …

This paper presents a novel trajectory planning method for aerial perching. Compared with
the existing work, the terminal states and the trajectory durations can be adjusted adaptively …

Multirotor aerial robots are becoming widely used for the inspection of powerlines. To
enable continuous, robust inspection without human intervention, the robots must be able to …