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 …

This review paper provides a detailed overview of the advancements and identifies pivotal
challenges in the realm of autonomous load-carrying mobile robots, with a particular focus …

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 …

Autonomous aerial delivery vehicles have gained significant interest in the last decade. This
has been enabled by technological advancements in aerial manipulators and novel grippers …

This paper introduces a novel, small form-factor, aerial vehicle research platform for agile
object detection, classification, tracking, and interaction tasks. General-purpose hardware …

This paper studies the motion planning problem of the pick-and-place of an aerial
manipulator that consists of a quadcopter flying base and a Delta arm. We propose a novel …

In this work, the practical implementation of magnetic end effector is presented using
magnetic levitation (Maglev) system as a working prototype, due to their similar functionality …

Failure detection and fault tolerant control are fundamental safety features of any aerial
vehicle. With the emer-gence of complex, multi-body flying systems such as jet-powered …

Purpose This paper aims to present a fully actuated aerial manipulator (AM) with a robust
motion/force hybrid controller for conducting contact-typed inspection tasks in industrial …

Drones have performed various tasks, such as surveillance, photography, agriculture, and
package delivery. However, these tasks typically involve drones simply observing or …