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Aerial Robotic Manipulators

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Aerial manipulators; Flying robotics; Manipulators; Free Flying Manipulators

Definition

An aerial robotic manipulator is an aerial robot with the capability of performing manipulation by using an onboard robotic arm and/or specialized devices.

Overview

Aerial robotic manipulators (Ollero and Siciliano 2019) can be considered as a particular case of aerial robots physically interacting with the environment, which also include the transport and deployment of a suspended load by one or by several aerial robots at the same time (Bernard et al. 2011). Notice that the second involves the physical interaction, through the common load, between several flying aircrafts. Other examples of these physical interactions (Kondak et al. 2015) are the docking of two aircrafts for refueling or even the flying with a tether, which could be also used for battery recharging. Other ways of physical interactions are UAVs with two passive hemispherical shells (Salaan et al. 2017), transformable...

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  1. GRVC Robotics Labs. Sevilla, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Aníbal Ollero

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  1. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Blk 1E Gillman Hts #17-43, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Marcelo H Ang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Dipto di Informatica e Sistemistca, Univ di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

    Bruno Siciliano

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  1. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieria; Robotics, Vision and Control, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Aníbal Ollero

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Ollero, A. (2019). Aerial Robotic Manipulators. In: Ang, M., Khatib, O., Siciliano, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41610-1_78-1

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