Intelligent robotic systems for structural health monitoring: Applications and future trends

Y Tian, C Chen, K Sagoe-Crentsil, J Zhang… - Automation in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of the cutting-edge technologies of robotics and computer science to
structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges have gained much attention. This review …

A survey on quadrotors: Configurations, modeling and identification, control, collision avoidance, fault diagnosis and tolerant control

H Shraim, A Awada, R Youness - IEEE Aerospace and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a wide range of interesting military and commercial
applications at reduced costs. A couple of their more interesting characteristics include: They …

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft

P Sareh, P Chermprayong, M Emmanuelli… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Applications of aerial robots are progressively expanding into complex urban and natural
environments. Despite remarkable advancements in the field, robotic rotorcraft is still …

[HTML][HTML] Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

Feedback control strategies for quadrotor-type aerial robots: a survey

NS Özbek, M Önkol, MÖ Efe - Transactions of the Institute of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Control of aerial robots is a popular research field as applications with different payloads
lead to a variety of flight missions. Quadrotor-type unmanned systems are one such example …

Intelligent amphibious ground-aerial vehicles: State of the art technology for future transportation

X Zhang, J Huang, Y Huang, K Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Amphibious ground-aerial vehicles fuse flying and driving modes to enable more flexible air-
land mobility and have received growing attention recently. By analyzing the existing …

A worm-snake-inspired metameric robot for multi-modal locomotion: design, modeling, and unified gait control

Z Bi, Q Zhou, H Fang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Worm-like and snake-like robots have attracted a great deal of research attention due to
their slender bodies and excellent mobility. Based on different locomotion mechanisms …

Autonomous and adaptive navigation for terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles

R Zhang, Y Wu, L Zhang, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles bloom in both academia and industry because they
incorporate both the high mobility of aerial vehicles and the long endurance of ground …

SytaB: A class of smooth-transition hybrid terrestrial/aerial bicopters

J Yang, Y Zhu, L Zhang, Y Dong… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work details the design, modeling and control of SytaB, a vehicle capable of hybrid
terrestrial/aerial mobility with smooth transition, where the structure embedding a bicopter is …