Deterioration of bridge infrastructure is a serious concern to transport and government
agencies as it declines serviceability and reliability of bridges and jeopardizes public safety …

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 …

This article analyzes the evolution and current trends in aerial robotic manipulation,
comprising helicopters, conventional underactuated multirotors, and multidirectional thrust …

The protection and restoration of the biosphere is crucial for human resilience and well-
being, but the scarcity of data on the status and distribution of biodiversity puts these efforts …

Rejecting all disturbances is an extravagant hope in safety-critical control systems, hence
surviving them where possible is a sensible objective a controller can deliver. In order to …

Abstract In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used for
bridge inspection. Although UAVs are expected to automate the whole bridge inspection …

In recent years, aerial manipulators with fully-actuated capabilities are gaining popularity for
being used in aerial manipulation operations such as critical infrastructure inspection or …

This paper presents the design, modeling and control of a fully actuated aerial robot for
infrastructure contact inspection as well as its localization system. Health assessment of …

This paper considers the inspection by contact of long arrays of pipe structures in hard-to-
reach places, typical of chemical plants or oil and gas industries, presenting the design of a …

Manipulation performance improvement is crucial for aerial robots. For aerial manipulators,
the baselink position and attitude errors directly affect the precision at the end effector. To …