Mechatronic design of a robotic manipulator for unmanned aerial vehicles

M. Fumagalli, S. Stramigioli, R. Carloni

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the mechatronic design of a robotic manipulator that is meant to be mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and to be used in industrial applications, for both aerial inspection by contact and aerial manipulation. The combination of an UAV and the robotic manipulator realizes the aerial manipulator. The robotic manipulator is designed to be versatile so that the aerial manipulator can perform both trajectory tracking in free fiight and physical interaction. Moreover, the robotic manipulator can be mounted on commercially available UAVs a modular way without interfering with the existing onboard control architecture. Experimental test are validating the overall mechatronic design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIROS 2016 - 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Number of pages6
Volume2016-November
PublisherIEEE
Publication date28 Nov 2016
Pages4843-4848
Article number7759711
ISBN (Electronic)9781509037629
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Nov 2016
Event2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016 - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 9 Oct 201614 Oct 2016

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period09/10/201614/10/2016

Keywords

  • Manipulator dynamics
  • Kinematics
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Frequency modulation
  • Sensors
  • control engineering computing
  • mechatronics
  • tracking

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