In recent decades, aerial robots especially small UAVs and drones have witnessed
tremendous improvements in terms of their structure, working methodology, flying features …

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 …

The growing population and increasing demand for surface transportation have highlighted
the importance of maintaining safe and reliable civil infrastructures for daily use. Among all …

The non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of civil infrastructure has been an active area of
research in recent decades. The traditional inspection of civil infrastructure mostly relies on …

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 analyzes the ground effect in multirotors, that is, the change in the thrust
generated by the rotors when flying close to the ground due to the interaction of the rotor …

This paper studies the tracking control problem of an aerial manipulator that consists of a
quadcopter flying base and a Delta robotic arm. We propose a novel control approach that …

Aerial manipulation has direct application prospects in environment, construction, forestry,
agriculture, search, and rescue. It can be used to pick and place objects and hence can be …

This article addresses the problem of leader-follower formation control of mobile robots
using only onboard monocular cameras that subjected to visibility constraints. An adaptive …

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 …