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22 papers
Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings
Christian Lanegger, Marco Ruggia, Marco Tognon +2
Aerial robots have demonstrated impressive feats of precise control, such as dynamic flight through openings or highly complex choreographies. Despite the accuracy needed for these…
Agile and Cooperative Aerial Manipulation of a Cable-Suspended Load
Sihao Sun, Xuerui Wang, Dario Sanalitro +3
Quadrotors can carry slung loads to hard-to-reach locations at high speed. Since a single quadrotor has limited payload capacities, using a team of quadrotors to collaboratively ma…
Evaluation of Human-Robot Interfaces based on 2D/3D Visual and Haptic Feedback for Aerial Manipulation
Julien Mellet, Mike Allenspach, Eugenio Cuniato +3
Most telemanipulation systems for aerial robots provide the operator with only 2D screen visual information. The lack of richer information about the robot's status and environment…
Enhancing Sliding Performance with Aerial Robots: Analysis and Solutions for Non-Actuated Multi-Wheel Configurations
Tong Hui, Jefferson Ghielmini, Dimitrios Papageorgiou +3
Sliding tasks performed by aerial robots are valuable for inspection and simple maintenance tasks at height, such as non-destructive testing and painting. Although various end-effe…
Passive Aligning Physical Interaction of Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles for Pushing Tasks
Tong Hui, Eugenio Cuniato, Michael Pantic +3
Recently, the utilization of aerial manipulators for performing pushing tasks in non-destructive testing (NDT) applications has seen significant growth. Such operations entail phys…
Geranos: a Novel Tilted-Rotors Aerial Robot for the Transportation of Poles
Nicolas Gorlo, Samuel Bamert, Rafael Cathomen +8
In challenging terrains, constructing structures such as antennas and cable-car masts often requires the use of helicopters to transport loads via ropes. The swinging of the load,…
Learning to Open Doors with an Aerial Manipulator
Eugenio Cuniato, Ismail Geles, Weixuan Zhang +3
The field of aerial manipulation has seen rapid advances, transitioning from push-and-slide tasks to interaction with articulated objects. So far, when more complex actions are per…
Design and Control of a Micro Overactuated Aerial Robot with an Origami Delta Manipulator
Eugenio Cuniato, Christian Geckeler, Maximilian Brunner +6
This work presents the mechanical design and control of a novel small-size and lightweight Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) for aerial manipulation. To our knowledge, with a total take-o…
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System subject to Parameter Uncertainty
Chiara Gabellieri, Marco Tognon, Dario Sanalitro +1
This work studies how parametric uncertainties affect the cooperative manipulation of a cable-suspended beam-shaped load by means of two aerial robots not explicitly communicating…
Learning Variable Impedance Control for Aerial Sliding on Uneven Heterogeneous Surfaces by Proprioceptive and Tactile Sensing
Weixuan Zhang, Lionel Ott, Marco Tognon +1
The recent development of novel aerial vehicles capable of physically interacting with the environment leads to new applications such as contact-based inspection. These tasks requi…
MPC with Learned Residual Dynamics with Application on Omnidirectional MAVs
Maximilian Brunner, Weixuan Zhang, Ahmad Roumie +2
The growing field of aerial manipulation often relies on fully actuated or omnidirectional micro aerial vehicles (OMAVs) which can apply arbitrary forces and torques while in conta…
Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents
Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas Lawrance, Marco Tognon +1
As the performance of autonomous systems increases, safety concerns arise, especially when operating in non-structured environments. To deal with these concerns, this work presents…
Towards 6DoF Bilateral Teleoperation of an Omnidirectional Aerial Vehicle for Aerial Physical Interaction
Mike Allenspach, Nicholas Lawrance, Marco Tognon +1
Bilateral teleoperation offers an intriguing solution towards shared autonomy with aerial vehicles in contact-based inspection and manipulation tasks. Omnidirectional aerial robots…
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction
Mike Allenspach, Yash Vyas, Matthias Rubio +2
With the rapid development of Aerial Physical Interaction, the possibility to have aerial robots physically interacting with humans is attracting a growing interest. In one of our…
Energy Tank-Based Policies for Robust Aerial Physical Interaction with Moving Objects
Maximilian Brunner, Livio Giacomini, Roland Siegwart +1
Although manipulation capabilities of aerial robots greatly improved in the last decade, only few works addressed the problem of aerial physical interaction with dynamic environmen…
Control of over-redundant cooperative manipulation via sampled communication
Enrica Rossi, Marco Tognon, Ruggero Carli +2
In this work we consider the problem of mobile robots that need to manipulate/transport an object via cables or robotic arms. We consider the scenario where the number of manipulat…
Coordinated Multi-Robot Trajectory Tracking Control over Sampled Communication
Enrica Rossi, Marco Tognon, Luca Ballotta +4
In this paper, we propose an inverse-kinematics controller for a class of multi-robot systems in the scenario of sampled communication. The goal is to make a group of robots perfor…
Modeling and Control of an Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicle Equipped with a Soft Robotic Arm
Róbert Szász, Mike Allenspach, Minghao Han +2
Flying manipulators are aerial drones with attached rigid-bodied robotic arms and belong to the latest and most actively developed research areas in robotics. The rigid nature of t…
Modelling and Estimation of Human Walking Gait for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Yash Vyas, Mike Allenspach, Christian Lanegger +2
An approach to model and estimate human walking kinematics in real-time for Physical Human-Robot Interaction is presented. The human gait velocity along the forward and vertical di…
Active Model Learning using Informative Trajectories for Improved Closed-Loop Control on Real Robots
Weixuan Zhang, Marco Tognon, Lionel Ott +2
Model-based controllers on real robots require accurate knowledge of the system dynamics to perform optimally. For complex dynamics, first-principles modeling is not sufficiently p…
Physical Human-Robot Interaction with a Tethered Aerial Vehicle: Application to a Force-based Human Guiding Problem
Marco Tognon, Rachid Alami, Bruno Siciliano
Today, physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) is a very popular topic in the field of ground manipulation. At the same time, Aerial Physical Interaction (APhI) is also developing…
Dynamics, Control, and Estimation for Aerial Robots Tethered by Cables or Bars
Marco Tognon, Antonio Franchi
We consider the problem of controlling an aerial robot connected to the ground by a passive cable or a passive rigid link. We provide a thorough characterization of this nonlinear…