Automated on-site assembly of timber buildings on the example of a biomimetic shell

APR Lauer, E Benner, T Stark, S Klassen… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automating on-site assembly benefits quality and productivity, reduces physical strain on
workers, and counteracts construction worker shortages. This paper develops a concept for …

Human-aware physical human-robot collaborative transportation and manipulation with multiple aerial robots

G Li, X Liu, G Loianno - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human–robot interaction will play an essential role in various industries and daily tasks,
enabling robots to effectively collaborate with humans and reduce physical workload. Most …

Safety-aware human-robot collaborative transportation and manipulation with multiple MAVs

G Li, X Liu, G Loianno - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05894, 2022 - arxiv.org
Human-robot interaction will play an essential role in various industries and daily tasks,
enabling robots to effectively collaborate with humans and reduce their physical workload …

Design, Modeling and Control of AVOCADO: A Multimodal Aerial-Tethered Robot for Tree Canopy Exploration

S Kirchgeorg, E Aucone, F Wenk… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forests provide vital resources and services for humanity, but preserving and restoring them
is challenging due to the difficulty of obtaining actionable data, especially in inaccessible …

Stabilizing Aerodynamic Dampers for Cooperative Transport of a Suspended Payload with Aerial Robots

K Dong, R Ding, S Bai, X Cai… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The current paper addresses the problem of stabilizing multiple aerial robots cooperatively
transporting a cable‐suspended payload by an aeromechanic method. Instead of relying on …

Passivity-based decentralized control for collaborative grasping of under-actuated aerial manipulators

J Jeong, MJ Kim - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a decentralized passive impedance control scheme for collaborative
grasping using under-actuated aerial manipulators (AMs). The AM system is formulated …

Robot formation performing a collaborative load transport and delivery task by using lifting electromagnets

CO Barcelos, LA Fagundes-Júnior, DKD Villa… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Supply delivery tasks are commonly present in hostile regions of
natural disasters, in military operations, and in agricultural and urban environments. In this …

Grasping Lightweight Objects With Chat-PM: A Rotorwash-Aware Motion Planning Method

L Zhang, C Han, Y Zhu, Y Dong, X Ji… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grasping lightweight objects with aerial manipulators remains challenging due to the
rotorwash interference caused by spinning rotor blades. This letter details a rotorwash …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient optimization-based cable force allocation for geometric control of multiple quadrotors transporting a payload

K Wahba, W Hönig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02359, 2023 - researchgate.net
We consider transporting a heavy payload that is attached to multiple quadrotors. The
current state-of-the-art controllers either do not avoid inter-robot collision at all, leading to …

Kinodynamic motion planning for a team of multirotors transporting a cable-suspended payload in cluttered environments

K Wahba, J Ortiz-Haro, M Toussaint… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a motion planner for cable-driven payload transportation using multiple
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an environment cluttered with obstacles. Our planner is …